More Online Casino Attacks
There is a never ending line of attacks against the international online casino
gambling industry and a lot of the misinformation and untruthful attacks are
actually primarily coming out of North America. The United States has
perpetrated a lot of the misinformation that is really saturating the market
because several US politicians are willing to blatantly lie and misrepresent
facts as a way to stop the reintroduction of online casinos into the US market.
The situation has now bled into Canada though and the same sort of attacks are
now being claimed within the Canadian market as the opposition to the internet
gambling industry is really trying to fight back against the government’s
decision to license and expand the Canadian lottery and online gambling efforts.
The Canadian newspaper reporting the facts, the Victoria-Times-Colonist must
have gotten some of their information from the US religious and conservative
right. US politicians such as Senator Kyl have really publicized some false
information and the Canadian newspaper has published similar claims – ones that
have no actual basis on facts and studies. The British Columbia Lottery
Corporation is the company that has been granted the right to implement new
lottery and online casino games and the BCLC has fired back against false facts
cited in the newspaper.
Namely, the BCLC notes that online casino gambling has not been shown to
increase problem gambling rates any more so than land gambling. New research has
been increasingly showing that internet gambling is fairly safe and not any more
controversial than all of the various forms of land gambling. |