Understanding the social harm of online gambling. Online gambling not only has the social harm of traditional gambling: endangering social order, destroying stability and unity, affecting production, work and life, but also causing illegal crimes such as theft, robbery, fraud, and murder. It is a hotbed of gambling and has more serious social harm than traditional gambling. Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that online gambling is a major "cancer" in current society. 1. The scope of online gambling is wider and the amount involved is huge. According to statistics from relevant departments, there are currently more than 1,400 gambling websites around the world, with an annual turnover of up to 60 billion US dollars. [3] As far as our country is concerned, online gambling, which has just emerged in the world for five years, began to penetrate into our country in 2000 and suddenly emerged. As part of the nationwide special campaign to combat illegal and criminal gambling activities that began in January 2005, among the 22 major gambling cases supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, 13 were supported by network technology. As of March 3, 2005, public security organs across the country had uncovered 317 online gambling cases, arrested 1,137 people involved in gambling, and the total amount involved exceeded 1.7 billion yuan. Beijing police announced to the public on January 20, 2005: Among the 10 gambling cases uncovered in a special operation to crack down on gambling illegal and criminal activities, online gambling cases involving football betting accounted for half. At the same time, some online gambling cases handled by our country’s courts also highlight the above characteristics, such as: Beijing’s first online gambling case involving 600 million yuan; Jilin Province’s first online football gambling case involving more than 1 million yuan; Zhejiang’s trial of a “rare case in the country” There were more than 400 people involved in the 1·26" extremely large online gambling case, with gambling capital of more than 1 billion yuan; Hainan's first online gambling case involved more than 1 million yuan; and so on. 2. A large outflow of domestic funds. At present, domestic online gambling is mainly the penetration of overseas online gambling. The top bookmakers in domestic online gambling are generally overseas. In addition to the small portion of profits obtained by domestic bookmakers, a large amount of gambling funds are remitted overseas through illegal financial institutions such as underground banks, resulting in a large loss of domestic funds. For this reason, online gambling provides great convenience for money laundering crimes. 3. Domestic football, basketball and other professional sports leagues have been severely affected. Due to the rapid development of online gambling in China, domestic football, basketball and other sports leagues have become the targets of online gambling activities. In order to obtain high profits, online gambling groups often use bribery or intimidation to control players, coaches, referees and clubs, and manipulate matches through match-fixing, which seriously pollutes the environment of domestic professional sports leagues and directly affects the health of our country's sports industry. develop. 4. Seriously disrupted the financial order. In addition to being accompanied by illegal lending and illegal financial institutions transferring funds, online gambling also has the harmful effect of affecting the healthy development of the stock and futures markets. Bookmakers engaged in online gambling activities in stocks, futures and other financial securities markets, in order to gain profits, often artificially intervene in the stocks, futures and other financial securities markets, causing adverse trends or fluctuations, causing chaos, and seriously disrupting the country's normal financial order. The above list is shocking. Online gambling has greatly undermined social security and management order, undermined the good socialist customs, and also endangered the development of the Internet industry. Compared with traditional gambling, its social harm is even worse.