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ER visits for gambling disorders doubled after expanded online gambling market

164 points · 157 comments · geox

whatever1 · 1789584798 · focus · HN ↗
All gambling should be state owned. It is a strict societal loss anyway, we can at least soften the overall blow.
Losses can be redistributed and cover for the externalities of gambling. And we will be able to control the knob on how addictive we make them.
For profit companies have the target to maximize their profit, so of course they will ramp up any method that can bring in more revenue.
1. ramesh31 · 1789590803 · focus · HN ↗
  An advertising ban would solve 80% of the problem. This stuff has always been around for those who want it, and (arguably) in a free society should be. But shoving it down people's throats in every channel imaginable has to end.
  1. cm2012 · 1789591240 · focus · HN ↗
    As a professional advertiser: yes. Gambling ads should be illegal. Big issue is supreme court said states cant ban gambling ads due to first amendment.
    mitxela · 1789603484 · focus · HN ↗
    Certain porn is illegal despite the first amendment existing - the court merely invented a "nuh uh" exception, called "obscenity".
    cm2012 · 1789603774 · focus · HN ↗
    Current precedent is that states can ban almost anything they want, but if something is legal, you cant ban ads for it.
    mitxela · 1789624754 · focus · HN ↗
    Point is the supreme court can just "nuh uh" anything they want to

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