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.
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. And this evening makes the citizens risk losing their money to the casino whose ToS is against the use of VPN. Your citizens now lose more to these casinos without the country receiving any royalties as revenue raising. Invariably, it all ends in favour of the casinos at the end of it all. Because you can't really stop your citizens from gambling at this digital age, except you plan on manning one policeman to a citizen 😜 , which is not possible.
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.
You have spoken really and very well and I agree with the suggestions you provided..
I remember what happened in the last administration in my country government before this present government took over office. X(formally known as Twitter) was banned in the entire country simply because the president of my country said he was insulted by Elon musk, the entire citizens of the country who were on X were charged to delete X from their devices and stop accessing the platform, internet service providers were charged to block every one of their users access to X which the did, but then, every one started downloading VPN to use to access X even down to most government officials 😂
Every one started using VPN to access X and after a couple of months, the president saw that the ban was not effective as every one was still using and posting on X like they used to before even some of his government officials, he then decided to quietly lift the ban.
This is same thing happening with casino bans, I've always made it clear that banning a casino in a country can only be effective in two ways only..
1. The people don't want to gamble
2. The casino themselves banned the people access to the casino.
Anything outside of this two is a complete waste of time because as long as the people want to gamble and the casino allow users to visit and play through VPN, the people will always gamble even from countries where gambling is banned.