Comment on Children as young as 11 tempted to try betting after being ‘flooded’ by celebrity endorsement

Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This

  They’ve legalized the shit out of it everywhere and gambling companies jumped on it.

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Quite frankly, gambling should be culled kind of like tobacco (although maybe not that harsh). I think they should ban large gambling companies from operating here. Betting shops are fine if they’re independently owned

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    • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Why?

      Gambling is always bad as it’s just making people think they can win where in realit the vast majority will lose. It’s bait and switch, and having it operating “independently” (from what?) won’t change that.

      Gambling is fraud

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If you ban it completely, you’re just forcing it underground. My mentality is to make it as least corrupt as possible, but still legal enough to deter underground gambling

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    • tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Betting was confined to the race track or the football stadium. Now the bookee is in your pocket 24/7. The odds are never in your favor.

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      • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah. I think online gambling should be banned. Just keep the bookies open so you don’t get a prohibition problem

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