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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens
by
Silberman
on 16/06/2024, 18:35:22 UTC
Honestly, I don't know the parental control feature. Luckily, my wife does. Cheesy
The sad part today is that you can play even without KYC as long as you are not hitting the amount that you need to show some identification before you can withdraw or deposit. Anti-money laundering rules. But if a child or a teenager keeps it at the amount that won't hit that surface then he/she can gamble as much as he likes because there's nothing that needs to be passed to prove that you are an adult.
This is the problem and yet many people are still against KYC. Kids can get in and out without being noticed and probably now many of them are playing without the knowledge of their parents.
Even if KYC was forced upon registration, teens will find a way around it as they are way better at using technology than their parents as they have lived with it all their lives, so a teen that is completely committed to gamble will find a way to do so, so what it needs to be done is for prevention campaigns to be expanded and for parents to have a talk with their kids, and in this way reduce as much as possible the incidence of teens gambling.