{"id":223949,"date":"2023-01-27T20:38:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-27T15:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=223949"},"modified":"2023-02-20T15:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T09:35:02","slug":"the-blurred-lines-between-gaming-and-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-blurred-lines-between-gaming-and-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"The blurred lines between gaming and gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<\/strong>The blurred lines between gaming and gambling<\/strong>\u201d published in The Hindu<\/strong> on\u00a027th<\/sup> January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 <\/strong>Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>concerns associated with <\/strong>the online gaming industry<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Some online gaming such as rummy and poker involves financial risks. Despite this, they are not considered as gambling.<\/p>\n

What are the issues with games like poker and rummy?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Poker and rummy are some of the online games which involve financial risks<\/strong>, i.e., users either can win or lose money in it. These games are called online gambling apps in parts of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, in India<\/strong>, these games are known as Real Money Gaming or RMG<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The reasons are that these gaming platforms say that rummy and poker are \u2018games of skill\u2019<\/strong> and therefore don\u2019t fall into the category of betting and gambling.<\/p>\n

The Constitution gives States the power to regulate betting and gambling<\/strong>. Since these games are considered as RMG, it becomes difficult for the state to regulate it.<\/p>\n

Further, even courts have held that<\/strong> playing games such as poker and rummy requires and rewards application of mind and doesn\u2019t constitute gambling.<\/p>\n

What efforts have been taken by the government to regulate such online games?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Tamil Nadu has attempted<\/strong> to define and restrict these platforms by enacting a law to restrict online gaming. However, the effort at prohibition was struck down by the Madras High Court.<\/p>\n

Last year, the Union Home Department<\/strong> held a consultation with the stakeholders of online game industry but the submissions were not made public.<\/p>\n

Further, the Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology<\/strong> has said that any game that allows or permits gambling is dangerous.<\/p>\n

However, the draft that regulates online gaming<\/strong> only contains safeguards for such platforms instead of regulating it.<\/p>\n

What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to come up with proper regulatory measures for online gaming, it’s necessary to provide<\/strong> what constitutes the real money gaming industry and what not.\u00a0Then only, it would become easier to regulate gambling apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cThe blurred lines between gaming and gambling\u201d published in The Hindu on\u00a027th January 2023. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Governance Relevance: concerns associated with the online gaming industry News: Some online gaming such as rummy and poker involves financial risks. Despite this, they are not considered as gambling. What… Continue reading The blurred lines between gaming and gambling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-223949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}