Is Online Gambling Legal Or illegal?

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Is Online Gambling Legal Or illegal?

Online gambling is any type of gambling conducted online. This includes casinos, live casinos and even online sports betting. The first online gambling destination open to the public, was ticketing at the famous Liechtenstein International lottery in October 1994.

While many governments across the world have legalised online gambling, it is still largely illegal in most countries. One reason for this is because online gambling has the potential to advertise to people who normally wouldn’t visit a casino, such as kids, students or those with other obligations. Many government officials, including France’s newly established attorney general Claude Grenier believe that gambling is harmful to society in general, and that online gambling should be illegal in order to protect young people from the dangers that may be associated with gambling. In addition to this, some authorities feel that online gambling should not be allowed on military bases. The UK government has declared it illegal to conduct online casinos on its navy vessels.

There are many grey areas surrounding online gambling. Because many countries have not made up their minds on whether online gambling should be legal or illegal, some countries have put in place tough laws surrounding the activity and some places have made internet gambling illegal entirely. One grey area in international internet gambling legislation is the matter of what is acceptable on the internet by citizens who do not necessarily have access to the casinos themselves. In other words, there are countries where internet gambling is completely legal, but where the residents do not have access to the casinos at all. The Cayman Islands, for example, has made online gambling legal and regulated, but only for residents of the Cayman Islands.