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Why are states legalizing some gambling in the first place? Like I can understand that not all states ever made gambling more or less completely banned, but mo
by jsmith45 4y ago
Why are states legalizing some gambling in the first place?
Like I can understand that not all states ever made gambling more or less completely banned, but most states only really had the lottery, possibly horse/dog racing, and tribal casinos (mostly because they can't prevent tribal casinos in the first place).
Now I know pre 2018, states could not generally legalize sports betting due to PASPA, but many states seemed to have no interest in legalizing say pure online casinos, which is something they certainly could have done if they wanted despite PASPA. Yet they don't.
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- petre 4y agoIt should all be banned by Visa and Mastercard like they do with porn platorms and forced to use cryptocurrencies. Then eveyone and thei neighbour is going to associate online gambling with crypto ponzi schemes and North Korean ransomware.
- gameman144 4y agoI've no love for mobile gaming, but the idea of payment platforms being encouraged to ban legal activities willy-nilly is a trend that scares me a lot more.
- tadfisher 4y agoInternet gambling isn't legal everywhere.
- gameman144 4y agoIn the locations where it's not, the determination to cut off access doesn't need to fall to Visa and MasterCard's judgment, in that case.
- chrisco255 4y agoThat's fine, I remember when the 90s internet was basically associated with porn, gambling, and Nigerian email scams. Weirdly made it grow even more.
- Dracophoenix 4y agoStates now have to compete with foreign (and to a more limited extent, domestic) Internet companies as future tax dollars are now going overseas to gacha games, cryptocurrency, and microtransactions.