[dustygoon]

Trying to think in terms of societal benefits of things that get advertised that really should be controlled. Pharmaceuticals are tightly controlled even though they should have societal benefit but with risk.

The vices are obvious. No benefit to smoking and ads are highly regulated. Alcohol...regulated, but not near as much (norms plus could be some benefit of a glass of wine maybe?).

But gambling to me clearly has negative societal benefit. A zero-sum game less a bookie fee. If you didn't have gambling, then a guy over here would have more money while another over there would have less and a bookie would lose a job.

It's equivalent to allowing ads for expressly offering day-trading (vs investing).

I think gambling ads should be massively regulated.