To be honest, I don't know how you people deal with addiction and I think that makes it clear since I also heard that most of them don't know or don't realize that they are already addicted to gambling. I guess the government stepping up is also a good thing but I just hope they don't really strict policies at it might lead for other gamblers to go to other online casinos.
One more thing about the government stepping up is that it is just another form of making gambling more main stream. It's about protecting the ones that can't protect themself and we should respect that. For me I see it very similar to when opening a brokerage account. Once you decide you want to go into investing and trading you need to understand that there are huge risk involved that could lose you all your money. Filling out a questionaire before opening an account to check your understanding seems a good way to do protect us. If you can show you are experienced then of course those safety measures shouldn't apply.
If we are a responsible gambler we will not having any difficulties about these things and the government will no need to make sure actions.
Yes you're correct: the government wouldn't have in any way bring into action the "prove that you can take the loss". Although as much as we have addicted gamblers among us the government move was in the right direction.
Kindly take a look at this thread to ascertain the injuries co-gamblers had inflected themselves with.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5271198.0 some of these victims died while some with severe health issues, at this junction if you can't "prove you can take a loss" then stay low.