Guilherme Boulos: Feeding the attention economy of social media, with billions of reais in influencer sponsorships and everything else, trying to keep people there, connected all the time, betting, betting, betting, running the machinery of this billion‑dollar addiction industry.
Guilherme Boulos: Last week, as you may have seen, the Lula government carried out a major operation against illegal betting sites, which are now also making huge money during the World Cup.
They managed to take many offline, arrested people, moved in hard.
Guilherme Boulos: The government had already been taking other initiatives, such as self‑exclusion for the legal bets, the ban... the ban on betting with credit cards, the one‑year ban on betting for those who resolve their debts through Desenrola.
Guilherme Boulos: And we will go even further along these lines, closing the net against the bets that put working families into debt and also create deep problems for the mental health of our people.