A New Zealand content creator is speaking out about the harms of gambling after revealing he was offered more than $500,000 to promote offshore gambling websites.<\/p>\n
Louis Davis is a Kiwi content creator with a following of over 3 million across all platforms, and has taken to his social media platforms to warn others about the risks. <\/p>\n
Speaking with Breakfast this morning, Davis said he received the promotional offers in his email inbox.<\/p>\n
“We get hammered with emails every day, they’re pretty consistent,” he said. <\/p>\n
When asked on why he decided to turn down the offer, he said that gambling promotions are causing real harm in communities and were encouraging addictive behaviour.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are living in an age now where you can gamble in your car, on the toilet, or at work. <\/p>\n
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\u201cThere used to be a time and a place for it, but now because of our phones we have access 24\/7 to it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they\u2019re offering me over $500,000 to ask you to gamble, imagine how much they\u2019re stealing from you.\u201d <\/p>\n
Data from the Department of Internal Affairs showed that in 2022\/23, New Zealanders lost $2.76 billion gambling on the four regulated gambling sectors – Lotto New Zealand, TAB NZ, casinos and class 4 gambling (pokies).<\/p>\n
Growing up in Northland, Davis said he witnessed the impacts of gambling firsthand. <\/p>\n
“I see the harm of this in my communities, and what it takes from us.” he told Breakfast. <\/p>\n
“There\u2019s a reason they give money to people that look like me. They\u2019re going after my community.” <\/p>\n
Davis said he would love to see changes around the rules of advertising, so people don’t continue to be tempted by offers from gambling companies. <\/p>\n
“People get put in this real hard position, where it’s undeniable life-changing money. I almost have empathy for people who have to make that decision,”<\/p>\n
“I’d love to see changes made to that system; I don’t want it to be a decision people have to make.” <\/p>\n
DIA has been cracking down on the promotion of offshore gambling, sending cease-and-desist letters to some influencers, and monitoring other accounts.<\/p>\n
Millie Elder-Holmers was recently fined $5000 for promoting online gambling. <\/p>\n
Under the Gambling Act it is illegal to publish an advertisement for an offshore gambling operator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New Zealand content creator is speaking out about the harms of gambling after revealing he was offered…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[64,210,517,9159,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-44656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-mental-health","11":"tag-social-issues","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114809111987098021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}