Why AREN'T certain games subject to the same regulations as slot machines?
I can answer for the US:
Games aren’t subject to regulation because for the past few decades one party has made it their goal to destroy regulatory power to allow the wealthy to enrich themselves.
One party in the US has been completely captured by billionaires and corporations. This started in the 1970s around the time the Koches founded the Koch Institute (now Cato), and the Scaife, Bradley, Olin, and other rich families started using big money to influenfe politics. Continued through Reagan, his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks (including rolling back Fairness Doctrine which allowed Limbaugh to fill the airwaves with propaganda). Then Gingrich, then Murdoch who kicked off Fox News. Now the US has one party that is a coalition of billionaires for funding and white identity politics for votes— and the only thing that party cares about is the wealth of their billionaire donors.
We’re not going to have any regulations to protect people until we fix US politics and media.
I can answer for the US: Games aren’t subject to regulation because for the past few decades one party has made it their goal to destroy regulatory power to allow the wealthy to enrich themselves.
One party in the US has been completely captured by billionaires and corporations. This started in the 1970s around the time the Koches founded the Koch Institute (now Cato), and the Scaife, Bradley, Olin, and other rich families started using big money to influenfe politics. Continued through Reagan, his tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks (including rolling back Fairness Doctrine which allowed Limbaugh to fill the airwaves with propaganda). Then Gingrich, then Murdoch who kicked off Fox News. Now the US has one party that is a coalition of billionaires for funding and white identity politics for votes— and the only thing that party cares about is the wealth of their billionaire donors.
We’re not going to have any regulations to protect people until we fix US politics and media.
(Good read on the history by respected historian: https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/50/divided-we-stand/ )