Totally agree! The few times I compare ads on television from Netherlands vs England the difference is huge. There's a huge amount of gambling advertisement in England. Advertising regarding something that's addicting is often quickly restricted in The Netherlands. Secondly the loan advertisements. In Netherlands the advertisements have to mention that it costs money (seems super obvious) plus there are restrictions on the interest rate. Seems in England companies can do whatever they want.
If a lot of people get into money problems it'll affect everyone (stealing might go up, or they'll not pay back loans, etc). It is so strange that this is allowed.
This is called "negative externality". Another example is junk food. It does affect everyone when people are unhealthy (health care costs for instance).
> It is so strange that this is allowed.
I think the US have ruled that advertisement is protected by freedom of speech. Actually some people get extremely defensive when talking about restricting advertisement (nanny state argument...).
Are you sure it's the same scam? A car sweepstake is a real thing outside of the particular scam mentioned.
But the car manufacturers logo was all over it, which makes me think it's legit.. but it is always there.. which is suspect.
Hundereds of formal complaints by people from the gym to the ombudsman and consumer affairs over more than five years amounted to literally nothing. They still do everything they used to.
Even more seriously, they didn't pay their employees superannuation, and it took years to even start the process of sorting that out.
As these car competitions are run by private businesses and not the car manufacturers my guess is they are simply too small of a fish to go after.
Now, just last week that same gym was implicated in a drug trafficking ring. But that's a different department of law enforcement...