Euro Online Casino

This is perhaps the weirdest method for the control of gambling addiction I have ever come across. The French have come up with a new banning legislation where players can have themselves barred from all forms of online casino gambling for up to three years.

The French recently got their heads around the legalization of online gambling, but are concerned about the safety of internet gambling and gambling addictions and hence their bright new idea.

According to this legislation a player must apply in writing to the French Ministry of the Interior and hand in the application in person. The government will then enforce a three year ban on the player from online gambling and brick and mortar gambling. The ban once enforce cannot be lifted until the end of three years.

But hasn’t it occurred to the people who created this legislation that addiction is a condition where people are unaware and not in control of their behavior? I don’t think and addict would just walk up to the Ministry one day and say “Hi I’m a gambling addict. I’d like you to ban me from gambling for three years please. That ought to teach me a lesson.”

It’s only players who are perhaps recovering from addiction who would perhaps even consider something like this. They are aware and this ban would help them gain more self discipline. The relatives and friends can’t apply for the addict in need of help. Even if they did have that kind of facility it would involve a whole lot of issues relating to civil liberties and the likes.

Although the idea behind this banning legislation is for the betterment of and safety of French gamblers, the legislation looks a lot better on paper than in real life.