Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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The anecdotal example I gave was from someone who used that option. It works from a list of known gambling payment destinations, but knows nothing of the frequently ephemeral overseas examples. And it seems also that there are services that use PayID email addresses to route funds to selected gambling sites. It's good to have options like these, but they can give a false sense of security to concerned friends and relatives.
I want to see kalshi and others included in something like this in the US.
And they'd throw a fit about it which I think would be educational to see.
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I'm obviously not serious, but the issue of scams and fraud are hitting older people in terrible ways and not much is being done about it.
We have activated every gambling addition in the country.
A more serious proposal is a list that people with issues with gambling could add themselves to that would block their cards from being processed by any gambling or prediction outfit.
You could get off the list by doing some forms and a waiting period.
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@futurebird Elder abuse via online or text message scams is common, effective and hugely embarrassing to the folks who are victimized by it. I wish that we had more cops working on it, and stiffer penalties for the perpetrators.
Very little was being enforced before they gutted consumer protections... right now next to nothing is being investigated ... it's a big free for all.
Check on your people. Review their bank statements with them.
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I'm obviously not serious, but the issue of scams and fraud are hitting older people in terrible ways and not much is being done about it.
We have activated every gambling addition in the country.
A more serious proposal is a list that people with issues with gambling could add themselves to that would block their cards from being processed by any gambling or prediction outfit.
You could get off the list by doing some forms and a waiting period.
@futurebird Yeah, but that would require entities who make money off exploiting people to stop exploiting the most easily exploited. We need to just make it legally indefensible to exploit people.
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@futurebird Yeah, but that would require entities who make money off exploiting people to stop exploiting the most easily exploited. We need to just make it legally indefensible to exploit people.
Gambling isn't real economic activity and should not be counted in GDP.
It creates no value.
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I'm obviously not serious, but the issue of scams and fraud are hitting older people in terrible ways and not much is being done about it.
We have activated every gambling addition in the country.
A more serious proposal is a list that people with issues with gambling could add themselves to that would block their cards from being processed by any gambling or prediction outfit.
You could get off the list by doing some forms and a waiting period.
@futurebird I'm pretty sure this exists even in most US states, try looking for Self-Exclusion Lists. Maryland has one.
Now, I've also heard that some companies go out of their way to target people on these lists. And all the fun new gambling companies operate on a zero-ethics model already ("Kalshi: Legal In All 50 States!"), so I don't know how effective the lists are.
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@kim @futurebird Now you’re on to something! Blocklists for parental phones and laptops! I’d like one tailored to block police blotter news reports, and automatically mute Trump and a couple dozen others if their voice comes on…. Can we get our kids to go through the mail too?
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I'm obviously not serious, but the issue of scams and fraud are hitting older people in terrible ways and not much is being done about it.
We have activated every gambling addition in the country.
A more serious proposal is a list that people with issues with gambling could add themselves to that would block their cards from being processed by any gambling or prediction outfit.
You could get off the list by doing some forms and a waiting period.
@futurebird it's a big issue and it doesn't get enough support. I was at a presentation by a liaison of my attorney general and she said Colorado is getting 2-3000 complaints a month about fraud/scams, mostly in the elderly population. And that's just the people who go through the process of filing a complaint over it.
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Gambling isn't real economic activity and should not be counted in GDP.
It creates no value.
@futurebird No argument here.
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Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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WHAT?
@futurebird@sauropods.win "sorry old man, but you know the rules: 10 minutes of fox news after you've accrued three hours of sesame street."
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@futurebird@sauropods.win "sorry old man, but you know the rules: 10 minutes of fox news after you've accrued three hours of sesame street."
@futurebird@sauropods.win "ooooh, racist remark around the dinner table? yeah, that's gonna cut into your fox news time I'm afraid..."
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You will be assigned a youthful guardian.
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Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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@futurebird I don't have children, but given how the future has turned out, I sure hope I die before I reach age 65.
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Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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@futurebird not happenin'. No way. Absolutely not!!!
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@futurebird not happenin'. No way. Absolutely not!!!
Think of the old people.
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I'm obviously not serious, but the issue of scams and fraud are hitting older people in terrible ways and not much is being done about it.
We have activated every gambling addition in the country.
A more serious proposal is a list that people with issues with gambling could add themselves to that would block their cards from being processed by any gambling or prediction outfit.
You could get off the list by doing some forms and a waiting period.
@futurebird yeah, also, gacha games should count as gambling. I knew someone who went into $10k in debt over a single game, which closed down super soon after it opened, so this was a very short time window. It is basically a differently presented slot machine. Back when I was a volunteer mod for one of those companies, I was told it was common practice in the industry to refuse to ban big spenders - people spending $1K+/mo. And the incentives to spend just kept coming.
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Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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@futurebird Erm, i don't have children
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Age verification but you can't look at media if you're over 65 without your children's permission.
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@futurebird
* over-65 CAPTCHA with 14.9 and 17.7kHz tones)rated-R: under 17 not admitted without a parent
rated-O: over 65 accompanied by teen (or dog) -
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