Recently, the Argentine regulatory agency ALEA and the non-profit gambling association CASCBA jointly issued a joint statement, announcing that they will crack down on more than 250 illegal gambling websites by "illegally allowing minors to gamble"; and called on banks, payment platforms, search engines, and social media to cooperate in the crackdown. .

After reading through the measures taken by various governments to combat illegal gambling, it is found that they basically adopt methods similar to "appealing" to various organizations, marketing platforms, and suppliers to combat illegal gambling. They have no ability to control their own destiny at all, which is truly a "roar of incompetence."

Looking at the cases of combating illegal gambling around the world, China is the most worthy of reference.

Due to the particularity of its system, China has extremely strong control over various institutions and organizations and a low level of corruption, especially banks, network communications and other institutions; therefore, its ability and efficiency in combating illegal gambling are extremely strong.

1. Card-cutting action to solve the problem from the source of payment

In the face of the gambling industry, which has a gross profit margin of only a few percent, the most effective way is to start from the source of payment. Once the card-using end is solved, the payment cost will increase dramatically, turning the industry from a sunrise industry to a sunset industry immediately. In Western democratic countries, even if it is not a private bank, there is a line of corruption from banks to the government from top to bottom. Even if the government takes the lead in cracking down, the cooperation is very poor.

2. Disconnection action to solve the problem from the source of access

In the face of illegal gambling websites, the Cyberspace Administration of China directly registered the domain names of the websites and used the Great Firewall to directly block them. After the websites were blocked, nationals of the country were unable to access them. Although there are policies and countermeasures in place, China has clearly developed a process-based approach to cracking down on it. Every time a website adds an accessible domain name, the Cyberspace Administration of China will crack down on it, vowing to fight to the end against illegally operated websites.

3. Cut off people and solve the problem from the source of employment

The legislation was passed very quickly to raise the cost of gambling and fraud crimes. Sometimes, the punishment would be for both crimes. In the later stage, legislation was also enacted for industry suppliers. The most distinctive law was the "crime of aiding and abetting credit", which was mainly aimed at bank card providers. Basically, the legislation was 360 degrees without blind spots to combat the entire industry chain of illegal gambling.

4. Action to break the leg and solve the problem from the source of collaboration

Due to China's unique Internet structure, Chinese netizens are basically concentrated on China's own Internet platforms. Therefore, if they want to develop Chinese users, they must promote on their domestic Internet platforms. The government's strong control over similar platforms means that once illegal platforms emerge, they will face crackdowns, and traffic parties who accept promotion contracts from illegal platforms will also face severe crackdowns. Cutting off their legs, so that they cannot move, is the subtlety of the government's "leg-cutting operation."

Looking across the globe.In Western-style democracies such as Argentina, Brazil, India, and the Philippines, most of the banking, network communications and other fields are private institutions, making it difficult to disconnect cards and networks. The long legislative cycle, many legal loopholes, and high levels of corruption make law enforcement more difficult. , or even have no legal basis to rely on, and most of the illegal platform bases are overseas, making cross-border pursuits more difficult and incapable of "cutting off people"; and the country does not have independent social and media platforms, and its national traffic is basically concentrated in a few major International giant platforms, such as FACEBOOK and GOOGLE, and as illegal platforms are gradually occupying more of their advertising market share, their cooperation with the local government is extremely low in terms of interests. It is basically impossible for the government to "break its legs" Nothing can be done.

It can be seen from this that it will be a long road for Western countries to crack down on illegal gambling, and it may even be a road that cannot be changed.

There is still a long way to go.