Yesterday we wrote that casino advertising has once again entered the Ukrainian Internet. The head of the state agency Play, Gennady Novikov, even wrote an algorithm for online media, which simple steps need to be taken (media registration, a note that this media is now 21+) in order to advertise gambling with impunity.
Yesterday we wrote that casino advertising has once again entered the Ukrainian Internet. The head of the state agency Play, Gennady Novikov, even wrote an algorithm for online media, which simple steps need to be taken (media registration, a note that this media is now 21+) in order to advertise gambling with impunity.
As the analysis of the media space conducted by the dev.ua editorial team showed, media outlets «for adults» have already become: korrespondent.net, tsn.ua, liga.net, nv.ua, forbes.ua, glavcom.ua, as well as a number of smaller media and industry-specific online media outlets.
In the comments under our CEO’s post on Facebook, we managed to talk to the co-author of the bill, which in the second reading turned from a bill that completely bans casino advertising on the Internet into a bill that de facto allows official media, online platforms, Instagrammers, and even casino organizers themselves to do so on their social media platforms. This is Verkhovna Rada deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak (Holos).
— How did the law on the ban on casino advertising turn into a law on its permission on the Internet in the second reading? Now every media outlet, every TG channel, every instablogger can go (and has already gone) to the National Council, add themselves to the list of media outlets (for 4k UAH), write somewhere in their account/on the website that their media outlet is now 21+ and freely advertise casinos. Was that the idea of the law? Did something go wrong?
— Aaah, so it’s even in the transcript of the Committee and working group meeting — it came to them (the coalition) after the «meeting with the President’s Office» and they shoved this nonsense in. I said back at the Committee that it would be pure profanity. It should be on YouTube somewhere.
— Well, if this nonsense has been put in, what should we do now? Let’s leave it as it is — anyone on the Internet, even an Instagram blogger, can advertise gambling? Are there any changes planned? New bills?
— What to do — wait for the elections, change the ruling coalition))) This is about real steps)
— So the online casino advertising market should be considered open? Until the elections.
— Well, actually, he wasn’t really closed off.
— Why? It was closed. Advertising was prohibited. Now anyone can.
— I’m saying «as a matter of fact.»
— Don’t you think that your law has unleashed real evil? Register yourself in the National Council’s register and put 21+. And they drove you away.
— Why do you think this is «my law»? I did not support this norm and do not support it. My part was just where a gambler’s license is taken away for non-payment of taxes. And this — I say, openly declared that it came as a demand from the OP.
We would like to remind you that, according to the comparative table of the draft law, the provision on partial permission for casino advertising on the Internet was introduced by deputy Danylo Hetmantsev for the second reading.
