While a study in the US indicates student online gambling might be on the decline, a closer look at the evidence shows this trend might have more to do with the tighter payment controls being enforced by online gambling and online bingo operators.

“You can’t just get on and give a credit card anymore,” said Dan Romer to the anti-online gambling publication Family News in Focus. “So that’s probably slowed down the enthusiasm on the part of some young people.”

Dan Romer is the associate director of Annenberg Public Policy Centre, the outfit that conducted the study.

Depending on your point of view, the study’s findings are good news or an indication that online gambling is not as a pervasive threat to our society as some fear.  Anti-online gambling groups will find themselves in an ironic situation over the study:  Do they applaud the study’s findings and therefore undermine their own argument, or do they reject the findings and continue to campaign against online gambling?

Clearly, online gambling sectors such as the bingo online sector and free online bingo games operators are doing a good job in ensuring a well regulated gaming environment that inhibits problem gambling.

Written by John Witherspoon – How about playing bingo online? The best free online bingo games are just one click away.

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