That's what happened in our country. When they have implemented a ban for online casinos, the gamblers have found a way to continue gambling. And despite that there is a huge revenue for the government, they're trying to balance things because it's also making a lot of gambling addicts. So, in the end, they have chosen to regulate them for them to keep on making revenue from the casinos taxes and then, they've made some measures so that users won't be able to gamble easily anymore through our e-wallets.
People want to do will do no matter what that is why we still have crimes all over the world even if it's prohibited by law so that is not the solution to end it. If they don't want their people to end up on roads because they though they can become rich from gambling then educate and create awareness about gambling and it's consequences so they will approach the gambling in the right way this is the long term solution but all the government looks for a quick fix rather than thinking about the future.
I agree, that's one of the best solutions out there and is to educate people about the effects of it if they're not going to change. To raise awareness will take double effort from the government and that's why if they will ban it, these people will only go somewhere else to have it done by themselves.
With now the development of the internet makes it easy for many things to do and access, although some have difficulty accessing it but that is humans, they do not lose ways to be able to outsmart it so sometimes there are people who can get ways to access things that previously could not be accessed.
I think that the government like this has chosen the wrong decision. Like in my country which is indeed prohibited gambling, but they still provide access to the community to be able to reach it, it is just possible indirectly (in their own way).
They have to remove that access if they have prohibited that because if not, people will still gamble anyways. And so, if they are serious with what they're doing to restrict their people from these online casinos, they need to do better but they're not doingi t.