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How do you regulate gambling for teenagers?
by eska 3y ago
How do you regulate gambling for teenagers?
- simiones 3y agoYou don't allow teenagers to gamble, and revoke the licenses of gambling places that don't enforce this.
- autoexec 3y agoHow do we revoke Fortnite's gambling license?
- simiones 3y agoThe same way we can revoke NetBet's gambling license, right? The government could easily require a gambling license (or a "random gaming" or a "f2p game" license or whatever form it takes) to be able to distribute a certain type of game which would be legally defined. Then, they could impose requirements like age checking for such games, and companies who failed to respect the requirements would lose the right to distribute these games in that country. International treaties could be used to extend this ban across a wider economic area. Note that there already exist laws that define precisely what types of games require a gambling license, extending that to a new type of game has to be done carefully, but is definitely achievable. As just a low-effort pass at it, we could require a license for any game that includes a way for the player to pay to have some advantage in-game, where this advantage is obtained via random chance after the payment is made. An advantage could be defined as any change to the player that statistically increases the player's chances of reaching a win state.
- skizm 3y agoClassify it as gambling, tell them to apply for a license, fine them heavily every day they are not in compliance, shut them down if they fail to comply for long enough or make obvious attempts at getting around the law.
- lapetitejort 3y agoThe point is that Fortnite has already instilled gambling addiction to a generation of children. Anyone interested in perpetuating this addiction (Microsoft, Sony, Sega, Epic, Apple, Google, Meta) will fight back and probably kill any attempt at regulation
- tharax 3y agoAre you saying that if massive corporations will probably fight regulation we should just give up before even starting?
- skizm 3y agoGambling is already regulated for teenagers. They can't until they are 18. Companies caught allowing underage gamblers get fined and/or shutdown.