Should Online Gambling be Legal?

By: Omar Ha-Redeye · August 4, 2008 · Filed Under Criminal Law, International Law, Legal Reform · Add Comment 

June CotteLast week the London Free Press shared findings on online gambling by June Cotte, an Associate Professor at the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Cotte interviewed regular gamblers at casinos, and people who gambled online, and found that the online gamblers were far more frequent and agressive in their playing, and were usually less aware of how much they had lost or how long they had played.

Since most online gambling companies are located offshore, they deliberately evade Canadian or North American laws.

As a result, Cotte came out with a recommendation to legalize online gambling, and then regulate it,

You could require the North American online casinos to have things like cooling off periods, where if you run out of money you don’t instantaneously hit a button and upload some more. In a casino, if you run out of cash, you at least have to walk to an ATM.

I found her suggestion interesting, so I asked around to see what others thought in various industries around the world.

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