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With all due respect that's the justification, not the "why". The why is politicians wanting to be seen as proactive and advertising company's wanting to protect the goose that lays the golden eggs by heading of regulation on advertising of the gambling industry. If addictive and algorithmic harms was the actual concerns we would be in the process of legislating the gambling industry out of existence. Add to the above a light sprinkling of oh so grudging compliance from social media companies who will be seeing a boost in the value of their data now they can tie it with even greater certainty to a real world ID.
I am ideologically opposed to the Liberal party, it's shit like this that makes me reconsider my support of the Labor party. I already vote independent most of the time, looks like Labor doesn't want to win me back.