Many people use the internet to play paid online gambling sites, while easy and fun it has many negatives to it. Addiction and theft are the most common causes of online gaming, but also hold many black market dealings. Stricter policies should be set on these sites such as a law that covers online casinos, the "European Union 's Third Anti-Money Laundering Directive" (Banks 120,) law could bet set on online gambling casinos to help stop money laundering, currently this law is only set in certain countries, I think it would be benefecial for us to pass this law in the United States. Another way to help with the problem of addiction and theft is to help educate students to be careful of certain sites or to be more in control of their time so they don 't spend most of it playing poker. Most of the online casinos are located offshore. They offer all types of gambling games, from card games to lotteries and even sports wagering. Indivuduals wanting to play online usually are required to set up an account on their website. Most payments are through credit card and debit cards; many companies have already banned their cards from being used on these sites, but gamblers still find
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Their reasonings being somewhat justifiable as gambling is fun and easy to pick up. Why would anyone want that restricted? It 's also a progessive challenge, even a journey for some. "Consumers in the United States spent $54.3 billion on legal gaming in 1998, and they spent slightly over $40 billion on spectator sports, cruise ships, recorded music, and theme parks combined." (Balestra, 8) Gambling is just another way for people to spend money on, instead of buying a cruise trip I am having fun with roulette, but you are spending triple that because of any losses most of the time, rarely do you win anything big playing online or even at a real casino, playing for fun is alright just don 't invest a lot of money in
Their reasonings being somewhat justifiable as gambling is fun and easy to pick up. Why would anyone want that restricted? It 's also a progessive challenge, even a journey for some. "Consumers in the United States spent $54.3 billion on legal gaming in 1998, and they spent slightly over $40 billion on spectator sports, cruise ships, recorded music, and theme parks combined." (Balestra, 8) Gambling is just another way for people to spend money on, instead of buying a cruise trip I am having fun with roulette, but you are spending triple that because of any losses most of the time, rarely do you win anything big playing online or even at a real casino, playing for fun is alright just don 't invest a lot of money in