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Originally Posted by dilanesp
In general, my position on these things is that we have the technology to do aggressive self-exclusion and we should do so. That's obviously not going to solve the problem of gambling addiction, but it will mitigate it somewhat-- people who have hit bottom and who put themselves on a list should be barred from gambling sites (internet and live). And if a site allows someone to gamble who is on the self-exclusion list should be subject to regulatory punishment.
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I don't know the answer to this, but intuitively I don't think that's going to help much.
How many people that have a legitimate problem are going to voluntarily put themselves on a list like that?
Even if you said something like "once you are self aware enough of the problem to attend GA you are excluded" you might actually incentivize a few people to not attend GA because they don't really want to stop completely even though they are in trouble and know they need help.
