What is your say in this critical issue against gambling companies?
If a gambling company is proven to be targeting student players, it must be dealt with.
There are standard rules that gambling companies must abide by, one of which is the age of +18.
If the company has implemented all the rules including +18 but the users who register to play do not prevent it, I think that's the problem.
I think there are still many student players who are not +18 who play without the knowledge of their parents. If the casino enforces KYC, it can be avoided because they don't hold an identity card yet.
You have a point but I don't think that gambling companies take students to be their main target, they are just running a business and they are not responsible for anyone's personal gambling activities. People who gets addicted to it are not being compelled of forced, it's a personal decision. The only way to make sure that students don't get tempted to gamble is if they avoid setting up centers close to school environments
Casino sites are making KYC mandatory. Gradually, many top-tier and reputable casino sites have made KYC mandatory on their platforms so that minors cannot gamble. However, if students, despite being minors, gamble on the platform without providing their parents' or someone else's documents or proving their age, it is their own and their family's responsibility. Casino sites are doing their business and they will do various kinds of promotions, it is their right, but if students gamble, it is their family's responsibility because their family is unable to take care of them.
Yes of course I agree with you, there is no justification for stopping casino promotions, casinos will do everything to improve their business, but here the responsibility to prevent minors from entering is not only the casino, here the guardian of every minor should monitor their activities, so that they cannot enter any casino site.
Casinos can make the maximum KYC mandatory to prevent minors from entering, nothing more, but even then if minors enter using someone else's identity or creating fake documents, then it is definitely a social failure.
So in the case of a minor, the biggest responsibility to prevent them from entering such places is their guardian, if they are responsible for their children and strictly control them especially on online activities, then only it will be possible to prevent a minor from going the wrong way, otherwise casinos are never responsible.