Comment 6: Teenage gambling
There are a lot of ads on the TV about cars, food, clothes, TV series,
films... Everyone can see them, from children to adults, and that can be
good to sell a lot of products, but there are other things that are
sponsored on TV, like bets, and, of course, children and adults see
them. Some adults like bets, and they can bet on the Internet, on many
different things: on football, on basketball, or even on especially
pages for betting, where you only enter to play and bet.
However what happens if a child with an age of 15 years sees the ad and decides to enter the page and bet?. He can think it´s a game and it can be fun, and even, if he wins, he will earn a lot of money, so, why not try? Then, the child creates an account on this page and puts €100 and play. A few hours later, the child loses the money, and he isn´t happy with that, so he put another €100 in the account and ,of course, loses again. Now he is angry, and decides to put 200€ in the account, and he loses them again. In less than a few hours, a kid has lost 400€, without the parents´ permission, and doing it without anyone knowing. Later the parents notice and the kid got an amazing punishment. He is sorry, but he won´t get the money back.
Is it really the child´s fault? Probably if the same child sees an ad of cigarrettes on TV, and there it says it will make you be cool and feel well, if the kid could buy them, he would, because he doesn´t really know what he is doing. So, if we don´t see ads about cigarrettes on TV, why can we see betting ads on it? I think they must be restricted, and that the Internet webs must be very careful with the people who can play there, because nowadays, there are more and more kids, whose parents have lost all their money because of this.
However what happens if a child with an age of 15 years sees the ad and decides to enter the page and bet?. He can think it´s a game and it can be fun, and even, if he wins, he will earn a lot of money, so, why not try? Then, the child creates an account on this page and puts €100 and play. A few hours later, the child loses the money, and he isn´t happy with that, so he put another €100 in the account and ,of course, loses again. Now he is angry, and decides to put 200€ in the account, and he loses them again. In less than a few hours, a kid has lost 400€, without the parents´ permission, and doing it without anyone knowing. Later the parents notice and the kid got an amazing punishment. He is sorry, but he won´t get the money back.
Is it really the child´s fault? Probably if the same child sees an ad of cigarrettes on TV, and there it says it will make you be cool and feel well, if the kid could buy them, he would, because he doesn´t really know what he is doing. So, if we don´t see ads about cigarrettes on TV, why can we see betting ads on it? I think they must be restricted, and that the Internet webs must be very careful with the people who can play there, because nowadays, there are more and more kids, whose parents have lost all their money because of this.
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