1 00:00:00,940 --> 00:00:04,540 Good morning, my name is Marta and I'm in charge of 19th Second Revival. 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:08,720 We have listened to your argument of your great interest, but we have some objections. 3 00:00:09,660 --> 00:00:15,400 Let me remind you that we are all aware that gambling is a huge problem in our society, 4 00:00:15,880 --> 00:00:19,019 but we are here to assess whether it should be banned or not. 5 00:00:19,660 --> 00:00:25,820 We have noticed that only gambling has its plans, but banning it will not solve a single thing. 6 00:00:25,820 --> 00:00:31,820 The key lays in regulation, and value online gambling would only cause more harm than good. 7 00:00:31,820 --> 00:00:35,820 Once we have established that, let me brief you of your arguments. 8 00:00:35,820 --> 00:00:45,820 You have started talking about the creation of an addiction, produced by online gambling. 9 00:00:45,820 --> 00:00:51,820 But let me remind you that we acknowledge that compulsive gambling is a serious condition that chemistry lacks. 10 00:00:51,820 --> 00:01:03,820 However, it's important to remark that online gambling presents the exact same issues as physical gambling regarding why online gambling and not physical gambling. 11 00:01:03,820 --> 00:01:11,819 I think it's important to regulate and our team has clearly proved that regulations work better than that. 12 00:01:11,819 --> 00:01:18,819 You have also talked about the families affected by the money in the same argument. 13 00:01:18,819 --> 00:01:24,819 But physical gambling also affects families. 14 00:01:24,819 --> 00:01:30,819 However, thanks to the state's regulation, any computer gamblers' relatives can sign 15 00:01:30,819 --> 00:01:36,819 them up in a list whether they would be allowed to enter any casino regulated by the state, 16 00:01:36,819 --> 00:01:43,819 including all the physical casinos and all the only ones inside the state's statements. 17 00:01:43,819 --> 00:01:52,819 This shows how regulations do work better than any kind of banning, and therefore this is proof that online gambling shouldn't be banned. 18 00:01:54,819 --> 00:02:06,819 As for your second argument, you talked about the lack of security regarding minors, but it's not entirely true that minors have an easier access. 19 00:02:06,819 --> 00:02:28,819 You have to accept and acknowledge that for entering any online casino regulated by the state, therefore SAFE, you need to enter with your personal ID, but let's say that you manage to steal your private ID and with your card to enter. 20 00:02:28,819 --> 00:02:34,340 Your crimes are eventually going to notice and sign up into this list of compulsive gamblers 21 00:02:34,340 --> 00:02:38,740 and therefore you won't be able to enter any casino regulated by the state. 22 00:02:40,099 --> 00:02:47,060 And now let me go back to my point. I'm seeing that you haven't said anything about the first 23 00:02:47,060 --> 00:02:54,419 argument so I suppose you agree with us. Our point is strong. Banning only gambling will not achieve 24 00:02:54,419 --> 00:02:57,379 with the mitigation of harm that regulation can. 25 00:02:57,379 --> 00:02:59,259 If the state's funds only come in, 26 00:02:59,259 --> 00:03:01,319 the people that cannot travel online 27 00:03:01,319 --> 00:03:05,520 will turn to illegal places, and therefore unsafe. 28 00:03:05,520 --> 00:03:07,919 These options lack the control of the state, 29 00:03:07,919 --> 00:03:10,199 and the consumer cannot be protected. 30 00:03:10,199 --> 00:03:13,599 On the other hand, if we have a well-regulated option, 31 00:03:13,599 --> 00:03:16,400 people would rather use that well-regulated option 32 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,560 than the option that is not. 33 00:03:18,560 --> 00:03:22,539 As for our second argument, you talked about, 34 00:03:22,539 --> 00:03:32,560 You said that the appropriate state, you said that it's more accessible, that only government is more accessible, but not entirely. 35 00:03:33,900 --> 00:03:45,860 Let me tell you that you don't need, even if it's true, but if only government is not the solution to stop compulsive ganders, addicts will do anything for satisfying their needs. 36 00:03:46,259 --> 00:03:51,300 Do you truly think that getting outside and going to physical casinos will stop them? Absolutely not. 37 00:03:51,300 --> 00:04:06,300 And for our last argument, you talk about the loss of money, and you said that it is not compatible that the money that we lose, the government does, with the money that online governors lose. 38 00:04:06,300 --> 00:04:10,300 However, I think the opposing team is confused and misled. 39 00:04:10,300 --> 00:04:20,300 the population gap was at the 0.8 of the GDP and the amount of money that we would be losing 40 00:04:20,300 --> 00:04:26,300 is around the 2%. That is a lot. We cannot afford that in the crisis period. Thank you very much.