Repeating fallacies will not save POGOs

WITH each passing day, it seems the news brings us new revelations of crimes and corruption associated with Philippine offshore gaming operators (POGOs), which the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corp. (Pagcor) has tried — unsuccessfully — to destigmatize by rebranding them as IGLs, or international gaming licensees. We have more than once in the recent past issued a call for a total ban on POGO businesses, but the appearance on the front page again this week of the same shortsighted supporters of the POGO sector repeating the same fallacious arguments in an attempt to scare the country into not taking action compels a response.