There are many countries placing ban on gambling operations in their country on both online and offline, for either religious reasons or as measure towards curbing gambling addiction. But is it making result? while several other countries are rather lifting their bans with less restrictive regulatory policies.
These governments have seen two things:
- The ban is not preventing the citizens from gambling, they are only getting smarter and using smart tools to gamble without detection
- They are losing quantitative revenue from the big gambling industries, so they come to get their own share while trying to regulate it
If there's any government officials reading this, it is important you all understand that the ban doesn't in anyway stopped your citizens from still accessing these gambling platforms online with their phones either through VPN.
Exactly, you're correct, people only got smarter ways to service their gambling ambitions.
There are modern better ways to fight gambling addiction such as which I have proposed in my opinion:
> Regularly educating your citizens on national TV programmes about the negatives of compulsive gambling. You can be sponsoring these programmes through the revenues accrued from taxes paid by these gambling companies. Or these companies could as well partner with initiatives and sponsor it.
> Provide skills acquisitions programmes and avenues of adequate job opportunities, because a lot of young people trooping into gambling are doing so as a result of a lack of sustainable means of income which makes them to see gambling is the all embracing means to make money.
No matter the level of education provided, people would the up behaving like goats, but it surely helps being there so they are reminded to gamble responsibly.
Being occupied and making money helps people reduce their involvements in gambling, so your second point stays valid.