Others : Banning Online Gambling Phenomenon

Ok, so where do we stand when it comes to the online gambling industry issue? In spite of its late development, many people still talk about its negative impact. But, an important aspect of the problem is being overlooked: the effects of banning online gambling industry.

Considering the actual boom that the online gambling world is experiencing, can you just imagine what would be like to forbid online gambling? We certainly don't want to anticipate a silent major revolution, don't we?

First things first, what are the main reasons for banning online casinos? One of them was or still is to assure that underage children will not use anymore the parent's credit cards to gamble online, in spite of the fact that most online casinos did everything possible to ensure validation of the account holder's age before permitting any gambling.

But by banning it they are just stopping the lawful casinos from taking bets and certainly not the less honest online casinos. They will profit from third party accounts like PayPal or Click2pay which allows online casinos to escape the new law.

By banning an entertainment modality particularly a well-liked one as online gambling, is an imminent phenomenon that people will find different modalities to full the law, such as the Speakeasies of the 1920's.

A Speakeasy was a nightclub that provided alcohol during prohibition and was generally hidden in the back rooms of pet stores and serious book stores. Every time a speakeasy was eliminated the next night another one appeared, and this is what will happen with these online casinos. If the administration finds one working in the USA and gets it shut down, then it's clear that another one will soon open.

By regulating online gambling the government wants to make sure that the unlawful online casinos did not get rich or gained any power because of a wrong lawmaking judgment.

Other grounds for banning online gambling were to help protect individuals from gambling addiction. Nevertheless, no evidence has ever been found that demonstrates the fact that if you have 24 hours a day easy access to gambling people who wouldn't generally be tending to go to a casino and gamble would decide to do it just because it was now in their homes. The information in fact shows a stable growing rate of people with gambling problems, being identical for over 25 years.

Many specialists are now sustaining the fact that although there are some benefits to the online gambling ban, the progress would be even superior if the industry was correctly legalized and not, just by putting a generally unenforceable law in place.

Maybe I'll go too far, but the online gambling issue is comparable to the war on drugs. Last time I verified there was still a drug difficulty in the U.S. even though drugs are illegal. On the other hand, in countries like Holland where the use of soft drugs like hash and grass are legal the number of people with drug problems is much lower per capita then in the USA.

Why? Maybe because the money from sales taxes are used to fund public schools where they can correctly educate kids on the negative effects of these drugs. The tree rottenness from inside, so one day the government will realize that and properly legalize online gambling world.