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Q: I want these gambling websites blocked！
Hello. I am an American married to a mainland Chinese woman in Zhejiang Province. I love my wife but she is a gambling addict, she used to play majiang with friends and whatnot. She also goes to the casinos in Macau and she even spent lots of time in a casino when we went to Zambia in Africa.
Now there are these live baccarat games online where there is a live dealer in Macau and people gamble online. My wife will sit there and play this for up to sixteen hours. Morning, noon and night. I can’t stand it.
I realize my my wife has a problem and an addiction but these websites are like crack. I would like to lodge a complaint about the website to the government. I know China has an “internet police”, who polices the web. If Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and all that are banned, this should be also. This is also an added thing that gambling is illegal in Mainland China. I know this is like saying that pot is illegal in Jamaica or Cambodia but it’s still the law. My wife is not technical enough to get a VPN or know what it is. I am just tired of this fucking website and those like them and want to report them to the cops.
Authoritarian governments rely on informants.I want to inform. But where is the office? What is the name in Chinese?
5 years 35 weeks ago in Visa & Legalities - China
I'm surprised they aren't blocked too, maybe the govt officials in charge of the 'social harmony and morals' love their gambling too much to block them.
Something you could look into is blocking them yourself. A quick google search shows it's doable.
ambivalentmace:
there are also apps to download like "folderguard" if it's still around, probably some competitors, it basically stops install program execute files from creating a folder under a given name, unless the user is smart enough to change the folder name during the install process, it blocks the folder from being created and blocks all dll and files for downloading to the folder. I did find some clever IT guys at a couple of universities that had stopped QQ from being loaded on school computers with folderguard, most chinese students are too lazy to figure this out. There are also some programs you can put in that will delete every download added at midnight every 24 hours to keep down clutter, so the gambling app would just disappear everyday. Obviously, you need to use admin functions to make it work.
I'm surprised they aren't blocked too, maybe the govt officials in charge of the 'social harmony and morals' love their gambling too much to block them.
Something you could look into is blocking them yourself. A quick google search shows it's doable.
ambivalentmace:
there are also apps to download like "folderguard" if it's still around, probably some competitors, it basically stops install program execute files from creating a folder under a given name, unless the user is smart enough to change the folder name during the install process, it blocks the folder from being created and blocks all dll and files for downloading to the folder. I did find some clever IT guys at a couple of universities that had stopped QQ from being loaded on school computers with folderguard, most chinese students are too lazy to figure this out. There are also some programs you can put in that will delete every download added at midnight every 24 hours to keep down clutter, so the gambling app would just disappear everyday. Obviously, you need to use admin functions to make it work.
Take her credit card off her, block these sites on home router, find a shrink...
You can block the gambling website on your home router and she will get a 404 when trying to reach it while connected to your home wifi. Unless she works in IT she will never figure out what's wrong and how to undo it.
Here is a tutorial: https://www.wikihow.com/Block-Unwanted-Site-From-Your-Router
Governments love to point out video gaming but gambling is a far more serious addiction and it's particularly bad in China, only government officials themselves are addicted to it so they don't want it gone just yet.
She could just get a vpn and bypass everything they block.
If you complained and found out the Chinese government has no interest financially in the site, it could backfire and they simply ask for a bribe for the site to continue anyway, the assumption that officials are not corrupt would be WRONG.
To respectfully 
refute ambi above ... it looks, "Mr.&Mrs. Cops" were also reading your thread:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-police-crack-1-1-billion-internet-gambl...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Police in eastern China have busted a 7.8 billion yuan ($1.1 billion) online gambling ring and arrested 56 suspects, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday.
The suspects are accused of making illegal profits of 650 million yuan from the Philippines-based platform, which had more than 114,000 users, Xinhua said, citing police in Jiangsu province.
The investigation into the gambling website was launched in January 2016 after a tip-off, the report said, adding that four of the prime suspects were traced through bank card information.
Calls to police in Jiangsu seeking comment went unanswered.
Casino gambling is illegal in mainland China, with budding punters having to travel to the special administrative region of Macau that borders southern China's Guangdong province.
Fifty suspects in the online gambling case were arrested in Shanghai, Fujian, Zhejiang and Guangdong, Xinhua said, while another six returned to China from the Philippines and handed themselves in. They are now being transferred for prosecution.
($1 = 6.8740 Chinese yuan renminbi)
The real story ....:
Apple Folds To China Censorhsip, Pulls 25,000 Apps From China AppStore 
Under fire from Chinese state media, Apple removed over 25,000 "illegal gambling apps" from its App Store in China as it scramble to keep Beijing on its good side.
- Aug 20, 2018 8:25 AM
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ambivalentmace:
This might work for the most part, because if they are too stupid to write gambling software and can't steal or copy it, they may actually solve most of the problem. Lazy ignorance prevails again. AMAZING, but when there is a market, there is usually a villain to provide the product or service.
