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We had a deal. The US has to deal with awful prescription drug ads, and the UK has to deal with awful sports gambling adverts. Legalized sports betting has bro

by rconti 11mo ago

We had a deal. The US has to deal with awful prescription drug ads, and the UK has to deal with awful sports gambling adverts. Legalized sports betting has broken the deal! Now we get the worst of both worlds.

actionfromafar 11mo ago
Next up - legalized drugs in sports.
- mghackerlady 11mo ago
  I wouldn't be that opposed to an 'everything goes' style sports division. Not only would it be fun to watch, but it would partially solve the issue of trans people in sports (which as a trans person I'm passionate about)
  - actionfromafar 11mo ago
    I see where you are coming from. Some of that stuff is known to be very harmful, though. Plus from a practical point of view, you'd have to basically repeal a lot of substance laws, not just change sports rules.
xvedejas 11mo ago
In how much of the US is sports betting legal so far anyway? I'm pretty sure it's not legal here in California yet.
- FeteCommuniste 11mo ago
  Thirty-nine states have legalized sports gambling. California has not: https://rg.org/guides/regulations https://rg.org/guides/regulations
  - rconti 11mo ago
    Aha. I'm also in California. This explains why the ads stand out more to me when watching the (baseball) World Series and listening to podcasts -- because generally, gambling sites don't waste their time and money advertising to me.
    - FeteCommuniste 11mo ago
      Same and I'm in Texas, also a non-gambling state.
iso1631 11mo ago
The sports gambling craze in the uk started after I managed to almost entirely exclude adverts from my life -- the main adverts I see are on the escalators on the tube and tend to be for shows. Even then I try to avoid the tube and walk instead. I have been in pubs with sky sports on occasionally, and it just looks like wall-to-wall. When I was a lad the local football team was sponsored by an international company with a large local factory. Manchester United were sponsored by a TV company. People did gambling, it tended to be old men in grubby bookies and fruit machines, middle-aged ladies doing social events like bingo, the grand national, and then along came Mystic Meg saying how someone with hair may be lucky tonight for their £1 weekly stake. We managed to ban smoking adverts from things like snooker, but the replacement is just as bad, in a different way

by rconti 11mo ago

actionfromafar 11mo ago

Next up - legalized drugs in sports.

mghackerlady 11mo ago
I wouldn't be that opposed to an 'everything goes' style sports division. Not only would it be fun to watch, but it would partially solve the issue of trans people in sports (which as a trans person I'm passionate about)
- actionfromafar 11mo ago
  I see where you are coming from. Some of that stuff is known to be very harmful, though. Plus from a practical point of view, you'd have to basically repeal a lot of substance laws, not just change sports rules.

xvedejas 11mo ago

In how much of the US is sports betting legal so far anyway? I'm pretty sure it's not legal here in California yet.

FeteCommuniste 11mo ago
Thirty-nine states have legalized sports gambling. California has not: https://rg.org/guides/regulations https://rg.org/guides/regulations
- rconti 11mo ago
  Aha. I'm also in California. This explains why the ads stand out more to me when watching the (baseball) World Series and listening to podcasts -- because generally, gambling sites don't waste their time and money advertising to me.
  - FeteCommuniste 11mo ago
    Same and I'm in Texas, also a non-gambling state.

iso1631 11mo ago

The sports gambling craze in the uk started after I managed to almost entirely exclude adverts from my life -- the main adverts I see are on the escalators on the tube and tend to be for shows. Even then I try to avoid the tube and walk instead. I have been in pubs with sky sports on occasionally, and it just looks like wall-to-wall. When I was a lad the local football team was sponsored by an international company with a large local factory. Manchester United were sponsored by a TV company. People did gambling, it tended to be old men in grubby bookies and fruit machines, middle-aged ladies doing social events like bingo, the grand national, and then along came Mystic Meg saying how someone with hair may be lucky tonight for their £1 weekly stake. We managed to ban smoking adverts from things like snooker, but the replacement is just as bad, in a different way