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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️⚧️Predatory Gambling Industry Is Misleading Voters
https://jacobin.com/2024/10/sports-betting-legalization-gambling-campaign
* gambling companies convince states to legalize sports betting
* promises of tax-revenue windfalls
* benefits less than promised, at severe human cost
[2018] Supreme Court Ruling Favors Sports Betting
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/supreme-court-sports-betting-new-jersey.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_and_Amateur_Sports_Protection_Act_of_1992
* outlawed sports betting
#addiction #gambling #lotteries #casinos #SportsBetting #VLT #VideoLotteryTerminals #UFC #MMAbetting #MintyBets #cryptocurrency #DraftKings #SCOTUS
Sports Betting Will Do to America What It’s Done to Australia
https://jacobin.com/2024/09/australia-sports-betting-addiction-murdoch
* Australia: canary in the coal mine for sports betting
* Americans should pay attention destruction the industry caused
* gambling isn’t part of the culture in Australia: completely unavoidable
* saturation of advertising for gambling companies on TV is total
#Australia #addiction #gambling #lotteries #casinos #SportsBetting #VLT #VideoLotteryTerminals #UFC #MMAbetting #MintyBets #cryptocurrency #DraftKings
... Huckster's like Trumpist Dana White / UFC, other sports empires relentlessly push sports gambling (with the "Gamble responsibly" acknowledgment, b.s. statement) raking in $billions on that, cryptocurrencies ...
Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/legal-sports-gambling-was-mistake/679925
unpaywalled: https://archive.fo/CQAW3
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41659458
#addiction #gambling #lotteries #casinos #SportsBetting #VLT #VideoLotteryTerminals #UFC #DanaWhite #MMAbetting #MintyBets #cryptocurrency #DraftKings
[thread] addiction : gambling, betting
Sports betting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting
Video lottery terminal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_lottery_terminal
Comments
* I lived in Halifax N.S., 1991 when VLTs introduced by Conservative gov't
* close/dear friend committed * when he went into debt/embezzled to support
"It's destroyed me:" VLTs pulled in $billions, crushed lives in Nova Scotia
unpaywalled: https://web.archive.org/web/20230616225043/https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/news/its-destroyed-me-vlts-have-pulled-in-billions-crushed-lives-in-ns-100739298
#addiction #gambling #lotteries #casinos #SportsBetting #VLT #VideoLotteryTerminals
The Guardian"It's the crack cocaine of gambling. It's the most dangerous form of gambling that we know of," said Bruce Dienes, a member of Gambling Risk Informed Nova Scotia. #videolotteryterminals #gambling #pei #peipoli
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