Quote from: EarnOnVictor on October 14, 2024, 10:18:05 AM

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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) – Brazilian authorities on Friday began closing down more than 2,000 betting sites, including those that sponsors popular football team Corinthians and other first division clubs, as part of a push to regulate online gambling.

Source: Brazil ordered the closure of 2000 betting sites

What do you guys think, is it the right step? What will the government lose or gain? What will the citizens lose? Will the closed websites cooperate? Many might want to take their business elsewhere as they like to operate where the regulations are weak.

Do you think Brazilians would cooperate with the government? Some may think of VPNs to bypass the government's restrictions, but this might put them into trouble with casinos. I wonder how many of them know this.

It takes a bold step to do this and it looks like some countries are now waking up. Regulation is important in the gambling sector, it's better not to have gambling outlets at all than to have them do as they like without proper accountability and even pocket all the money without giving the government what is due to them. As for the government, the tax due is not justified if not used properly, sensitises/educates the people about gambling and protects the rights of the citizens/residents.

I love it when I read this, which shows the government's seriousness in collaboration with licensed casinos/sportsbooks.

As far as I understood from the news - Brazil does not ban absolutely all online casino titles within its providers. And even if they did this, then any Brazilian can use VPN services and then any casino site will open without problems.
And that means all these measures to close casinos by the government mean nothing. Now if the casinos themselves were interested in the guys from Brazil not being able to enter the sites, then the owners of online casinos would easily not allow verification for Brazil on their sites, and would ban according to the promotion and unique device identifier.