Re: Concerns grow over online gambling among teens

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.

They do have a higher understanding of technology so the problem of identity may be that they can find a way to manipulate data including using AI in its implementation.

This condition is quite alarming if it grows among young people who are arrogant and full of ambition in their lives, when they do not have a stand in life principles then do not have a sense of responsibility and poor self-control will make it easier for them to fall into something that they do not understand such as excessive addiction and their character will become a bad young man, in my neighborhood also has people like that, not many but from the average of those who gamble they lose their direction in life as if gambling is a common thing for them even though the morals in their environment really hate gambling.

What you said above is basically very likely to be experienced by people who consider gambling as a source of income. They work and earn money, then they use all the money to gamble. Some of them may even get loans to gamble, cases like this are very common among teenagers today. Of course it's bad, but this is progress that is being misused by more than just teenagers.

The problem of teenage addiction to gambling has become the main focus of the government in my opinion. In Indonesia (certain regions), the local government has even asked the central government to block certain types of online games that are not categorized as gambling, while many online gambling sites are also blocked by the central government.