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Gambling of any kind can have far reaching repercussions on families and even whole sectors of the community when a person becomes seriously affected psychologically by its addictive nature and an ever tightening financial stranglehold. Thankfully, cases such as these are extremely rare. In cases of problematic gambling, it is even rarer that actual physical harm ever comes to a person caught up in it.

The same addictive traits associated with gambling are also evident in some kinds of computer games, especially competitive games. It is just these addictive and socially isolating characteristics that caused a concerned father to prohibit his 12 year old son from playing any more computer games.

We will never know what mental processes were set in motion that resulted in the boy subsequently leaping to his death from a balcony on the sixth floor of his school building on Thursday. Online gaming or gambling is unlikely to be the whole cause, although it may be a part of it.

A Thai court has decided that the incident is serious enough to justify an order to shut down seventy two websites that provide online gaming and gambling facilities. In addition to the order, a notice has gone out to all ISPs physically located in Thailand that they may no longer provide access by citizens to any these sites. Failure to comply will result in them facing the loss of their ISP licences and their owners and employees will face jail as well as a hefty fine.

The websites in question were promoting online gambling, online games and otherwise attracting visitors to place bets online. The Thai Department of Special Investigations has claimed that the country’s Criminal Court made the order to close down those websites that were allegedly attempting to goad people into becoming addicted to the games they promoted.

The decision by the Court is now coming under heavy fire from those who believe the country’s current laws make no provision for this kind of blanket website shut down. Thailand has plenty of its own problems and they’re not only based around the computer gaming industry. It is rumoured that some of the top betting websites are regularly raking in more than 100 million baht each night, which is the equivalent of $3 million US and is creating an enormous loss in taxation revenue to the country’s treasury.