A solution that hits the happy middle for me is to ban, or at least restrict, advertising of sports betting. The way they've devoured sports coverage is what I find the most annoying.
The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues. The right to say most things, including advertising legal things, is more culturally significant than the right to make wagers in many societies.
Though oddly, this is a place where we can take some inspiration from tobacco. Restrictions on advertising work, but restrictions on sales mostly don't. The thing that works may be preferable even if it is culturally more difficult to accept.
> The problem with this is that it runs into free speech issues.
No it absolutely does not. Rules and regulations on advertising including what can be advertised, how it's advertised, who it can be targeted to, and the medium in which it can be advertised in are already strictly regulated in the US, Canada, and Europe.
amalcon|2 years ago
Though oddly, this is a place where we can take some inspiration from tobacco. Restrictions on advertising work, but restrictions on sales mostly don't. The thing that works may be preferable even if it is culturally more difficult to accept.
SonicScrub|2 years ago
No it absolutely does not. Rules and regulations on advertising including what can be advertised, how it's advertised, who it can be targeted to, and the medium in which it can be advertised in are already strictly regulated in the US, Canada, and Europe.
unknown|2 years ago
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