Quote from: South Park on Today at 04:32:04 PM

Quote from: ChiBitCTy on October 02, 2021, 04:23:27 PM

I am just kind of curious how legalized gambling is coming along in whatever part of the world you live in? I'm from Illinois in the United States and we just recently legalized many forms of gambling. It's progressing pretty quickly too. I'm hearing a lot of radio ads, seeing ads on TV for different sports books and what not etc. I see this as great progress. Free will is something we all deserve and though I know gambling can cause serious addiction etc, that shouldn't be up to our governments to decide whether we should be allowed to do it or not.

So I ask you, how is it coming along where you live? Is it fully legal, coming close to being legal, or illegal with no change in sight?

Where I live gambling is completely legal not only online but I can also be gambling in a casino in 15 minutes if I want, personally I prefer it this way, banning gambling only helps organized crime to get the industry for almost nothing and get incredible profits as they can fix the games and never pay the winners, this is similar to what happened during the prohibition era in which selling alcohol was made illegal and then the mafia got control of a industry that paid taxes, converted it in a huge problem for the police and then formed an empire out of it.

Yes but with alcohol you do at least have some logistical burdens to overcome, namely you have to get the product into the hands of the consumer. With online gambling authorities know there is literally no way to ever fully stop those businesses. They just register in Cayman Islands, get some server up and running where authorities can't intervene and there you go. Legalization is pretty much the only way to get a slight control over the sector and the profits / due taxes.