thoughts on an international self-exclusion list?

[White_Unifier]

Member-states could exclude certain categories from casinos:
Undischarged bankrupts
Those receiving financial aid from the Government
Those who live in subsidised rental flats and have more than 6 months of arrears
Those receiving Legal Aid
https://www.ncpg.org.sg/en/Pages/Dea...px?category=2#

I'm all for the state providing financial aid to the poor, but only after it reasonably reduces the probability that the person will just gamble all of the taxpayer's money away.

Also, with the availability of modern scanning technology, we could expand this to any business that sells gambling, alcohol, nicotine, massage, and other similarly addictive products and services by requiring them to scan each potential buyer's passport, fingerprint, or other ID and refusing to sell to any person on the exclusion list.

And that's just the compulsory exclusion list. We could then allow any person who wants to add his name to a voluntary self-exclusion list to do so for a reasonable fee so as to prevent him from heading towards social assistance before he reaches that point.

 

[Hoid]

How about the government shuts down all their gambling operations?

I would rather see that.

 

[White_Unifier]

How about the government shuts down all their gambling operations?

I would rather see that.

That would be even better in my opinion, but I don't know that it would be politically feasible. Right now Ontario doesn't even have a reliable self-exclusion policy as it relies on unreliable facial-recognition cameras. If it doesn't even have the will to establish a reliable self-exclusion policy, how will it have the will to shut down its operations?
A more effective and robust self-exclusion law would be a nice first step.