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Hello, my name is Elena, and I'm in charge of the Pertibatal.

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We have been through arguments, but we have some objections.

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First, you mentioned personal freedom.

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People are not free to do whatever they want and whenever they want.

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Whether decisions taken in any level of way affect society is the government's role to act and do something about it.

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So, I don't think you're right in that one.

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Secondly, you talked about cultural gathering.

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Not all cultures are good. For example, some cultures of Qatar, their main points are sexism or homophobia, and not everything that is a religion has to be good for society.

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And finally, you said the usefulness of gambling. If we enable people to play, they will find a legal way to do it.

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It is true, people are going to do it anyway, but eliminating a big percentage of online gambling is the best we can do.

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We are not going to let the fact that it won't be a better solution as it will still affect the small fragment of the population.

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It makes us forget that a majority will stop and will benefit from this decision.

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Also, there are already a million illegal ways to online gamble, and it is nothing new.

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So if people are already finding illegal ways to play, proof that the measurements you promote do more harm than good, they do not do their job.

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And on the first event I've just mentioned that everything in the right amount is right.

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But that's the point, it's not in the right amount.

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And you can clearly see that people are not being responsible and the regulations aren't enough.

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So the best decision is to ban online gambling.

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Now, let me join you over arguments.

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Firstly, it is very addictive. Online gambling has a net margin of almost 700 million euros.

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This business has increased 20% every year since 2012.

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and the number of players has increased 2028% since then.

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While people bet online on online gambling, they don't realise the amount of money they are spending

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because they are losing physical money leading to a business cycle with them betting more and more without realising.

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Online gambling is also seen in sports with great users who are desperate for winning to manipulate bets making this addiction pretty serious.

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Secondly, it's lack of security, and this graphic shows that the majority of people who gamble online are young, even minors.

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This is that the main games minors play are online gamblers.

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According to the Ministry of Health, 10% of young people between 14 and 18 bet online regularly.

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This has been powered by the need of entertainment due to the confinement and mobility restrictions.

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The amount of hackers, online tells and manipulation has increased significantly thanks to online gambling,

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making it even less probable for people to win a prize, meaning the house always wins, and even more in online gambling.

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For all these reasons, we insist that only government should be banned.

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Thank you for your time.