Why are the offline and online shops affected in this one, shouldn't it be the gambling alone that's affected by the credit card ban and what's the story behind the ban of credit cards in Ireland? That's a really strange ban in my opinion.
Well apparently the association for the safer gambling regulation in Ireland have established that the credit card system might be causing a lot of problems for the people involved in gambling and that they might use it a lot and fall into debts, etc..
Therefore they have decided to ban it in both online and offline places.
So finally Irish people have fallen for the same social taboo against gambling that less progressive societies face. Unfortunate! But I do support the ban on credit card gambling. It's not wise to gamble using borrowed money as the chance of getting into serious debt trap increases manifold. But what's with the advertising ban!! Gamblers would anyway know where to gamble. In the era of internet, advertising ban makes no sense.
If the gambling houses can't advertise on television, they would turn to social media marketing which can have even severe impact on new gamblers. Seriously, advertising ban doesn't nake sense!
Advertising ban might be a good thing in some places but at the end of the day, these things might mean that they have to look for other things to advertise in and at the same time, they might have to use billboards etc.. but at the same time there are many other things that still gets to have a place to advertise in tv but gambling is actually smaller than that.
