In a country where gambling is prohibited, if a person of law can visit someone who is addicted to gambling, then he is given legal punishment. I think does not fix this act
I also don't support such behavior of government where gamblers will be punished if they get catched by law. But each county has different point of views depends on their economy, religious prospective, their culture and others which make them to develop law for welfare of their people. There are many gambler who try to change their luck by gambling, after losing they involving criminal activities for manage money for gambling. Maybe thats the reason why some governments develop this law for gambling as publishable offence. So better to keep it secret for them who belongs to those countries where law don't allow gambling legally
What do you actually expect the authorities to do when they catch you going against the law? They will definitely do what is legally right against those who break the laws and if the country prohibits gambling and it's illegal to gamble and you are still found being involved with gambling, both you and the platform offering the opportunity must be punished since you are both going against the law and if they don't do this, it simply means that the country is not strict about its own laws.
So, you can't blame the government or the authorities if they are punishing people or entities that are either gambling or offering the opportunity for others to gamble because that is the right thing to do about this. If they don't do anything, that will be a bad example and others will start doing the same thing.
Each country does have their own law which means that its citizens does really need to follow on whats really be that mandated or been regulated. It would really be just that a common sense
thing that as a citizen then following laws and regulations is a must because trying out to oppose on what the government had stated then expect that there would really be a specific consequences that you might be
able to face on and this is why it would be always ideal on staying up clean and really that a law-abiding citizen. Its true that being penalized or facing up some charges or violation will really be imposed.
Going back into the topic about making your gambling habit as a secret, then if this one particularly means about hiding from your loved ones because you dont like on getting scolded or discriminated
then its your choice but hiding against the government since its banned? You are really that endangering yourself on possible violations which you might even be ending up on getting
jailed once they would really be caught you because of that violating laws and regulations.