@JollyGood. It might be more complicated than the argument that the government of Italy is being a draconian state, I reckon. They might also be doing this for purposes of taxation which is the revenue source of the government. If international online casinos want to operate in Italy, they need to comply with Italian laws and pay proper taxes. Another purpose for this might be to help avoid their jurisdiction from being a place for money laundering.
Of course, all this is made for taxes.
They pretend they are doing that in order to protect thee fools from separating from their money. The Italian State of course wants the monopoly also in taxing the citizen. So it wants to keep us rich so that we can pay more taxes!
I have to say this is somewhat of a draconian law if it goes to these lengths to control the freedom of choice where their adult citizens opt to gamble. They know VPNs are used to bypass such regulations thus making their attempts to limit access almost a failure, yet they still maintain their stance.
How did it happen?
I think like gambling is very common in Europe and many European countries are opened with gambling industry. Is there change in Italian regulations against Cryptocurrency and gambling industry that I did not know?
Every gambling website selling services to Italian customers must be specifically authorised and monitored by Italian government.
You must abide to a series of regulations and certifications, otherwise, its ban.
Basically, all gambling sites are blocked by default, and you get to obtain this authorisation in order to make your website visible.
Welcome to Italy!
I agree that firstly its about the taxes, and secondly posts the pandemic government may have realised that the gambling industry is thriving, hence they decided that theyll earn real good money from the approval process in addition to taxes.
Lastly not all gambling sites allow the use VPN, and whats happens if the gambling sites put Italy in the list of banned countries then these users could face lots of issues if they manage to deposit and win, and lastly whats Cloudbet stance on this for users from Italy?.
