It's really rich of DraftKings and FanDuel to insist on people gambling "responsibly" when they bombard users with notifications about betting opportunities and even assign people to specific customers to target them and convince them to keep going. The NFL's partnership with and promotion of these sportsbooks also shouldn't be diminished. They are essentially serving up vulnerable individuals to these companies in the interest of profit. It's predatory behavior, pure and simple.
So terribly predatory. I’ve never found gambling appealing at all, but I know that one of my grandparents had their lives ruined because of this addiction. It’s awful that huge businesses are being built around exploiting this.
I could have sent the exact same email that you did. (A grandfather who was no longer alive when I was born despite his jovial attractive personality, ruined and jeopardized his and other's lives. How sad for his wife, the grandmother I never knew, who apparently adored him despite this addiction--a woman whose family started a university in Ireland.)
Do the world a favor. Shut them down. Take away their money with lawsuits like this. What I hate as much as anything is our government being involved in gambling. No excuse for it.
States are hooked on this drug gambling- it provides them with revenue. In Illinois, you should see how many slot machines there are- probably an even worse gambling option.
Social media, specifically Twitter/X, is complicit in this.
I don’t have a gambling problem: I have never placed a sports bet. But I disapprove of the industry.
Every time an ad pops up for a sports book or casino I block it, but it doesn’t help. More likely than not the next ad will be for another one. Twitter tells me I can change my ad preference, but no where I can find allows me to block the entire industry.
Imagine if I were a problem gambler. I would be inundated with constant ads. They should be held liable.
Who hasn’t seen addiction wreck someone’s life? I have seen it too many times- alcohol, tobacco, gambling and other risky behaviors that ultimately killed persons I loved. And the damage to their families is unforgivable. And yet the institutionalization of addictive behaviors to legally turn a profit continues. Most states have lotteries taking money from those who can afford it the least. Alcohol and tobacco remain legal even though they ultimately kill. And now the fall out of the last decade of this experiment into legalized algorithmic sports betting and event betting like Polymarket. Bread and circuses. It’s all bread and circuses while the empire collapses. The level of manipulation of the masses, now with AI, by the few who make their money on their addictions never ends.
I'll bet these gambling scam artists declined to respond. When I see pop-up ads during the games, it sets me off. I said very early that this kind of instant betting would seed this kind of addiction, and families would be damaged.
Now, I'm going to add what I said about this a while back: This convenient form of betting will ultimately destroy sports, and the result will be permanent damage, because once trust in the games is lost, we can never get it back.
This form of gambling breeds an atmosphere for game fixing, and the potential for corruption is only limited by the ethics of the gambling establishment, a bunch of thieves that have very little empathy or ethics. If you believe that this is just entertainment, you're a fool. This could even eventually empty the stands, and then where would we be? Nowhere good.
Another Robert's Court disaster ruling. The House always wins, unless it's a trump casino where the house goes bankrupt... The NFL is now more gambling enterprise than a sports league. I wonder how many unforced fumbles or deliberately dropped passes scored some big gains for the gambling hoards, and how much NFL insiders won in the betting parlors of their phones as they sat in their taxpayer funded stadium executive suites..
It's really rich of DraftKings and FanDuel to insist on people gambling "responsibly" when they bombard users with notifications about betting opportunities and even assign people to specific customers to target them and convince them to keep going. The NFL's partnership with and promotion of these sportsbooks also shouldn't be diminished. They are essentially serving up vulnerable individuals to these companies in the interest of profit. It's predatory behavior, pure and simple.
So terribly predatory. I’ve never found gambling appealing at all, but I know that one of my grandparents had their lives ruined because of this addiction. It’s awful that huge businesses are being built around exploiting this.
I could have sent the exact same email that you did. (A grandfather who was no longer alive when I was born despite his jovial attractive personality, ruined and jeopardized his and other's lives. How sad for his wife, the grandmother I never knew, who apparently adored him despite this addiction--a woman whose family started a university in Ireland.)
American Business community has lost it's ability to distinguish between a business man and a con man. Caveat emptor is bad business.
Do the world a favor. Shut them down. Take away their money with lawsuits like this. What I hate as much as anything is our government being involved in gambling. No excuse for it.
States are hooked on this drug gambling- it provides them with revenue. In Illinois, you should see how many slot machines there are- probably an even worse gambling option.
Social media, specifically Twitter/X, is complicit in this.
I don’t have a gambling problem: I have never placed a sports bet. But I disapprove of the industry.
Every time an ad pops up for a sports book or casino I block it, but it doesn’t help. More likely than not the next ad will be for another one. Twitter tells me I can change my ad preference, but no where I can find allows me to block the entire industry.
Imagine if I were a problem gambler. I would be inundated with constant ads. They should be held liable.
Who hasn’t seen addiction wreck someone’s life? I have seen it too many times- alcohol, tobacco, gambling and other risky behaviors that ultimately killed persons I loved. And the damage to their families is unforgivable. And yet the institutionalization of addictive behaviors to legally turn a profit continues. Most states have lotteries taking money from those who can afford it the least. Alcohol and tobacco remain legal even though they ultimately kill. And now the fall out of the last decade of this experiment into legalized algorithmic sports betting and event betting like Polymarket. Bread and circuses. It’s all bread and circuses while the empire collapses. The level of manipulation of the masses, now with AI, by the few who make their money on their addictions never ends.
Everyone everywhere is trying to squeeze every nickel out of our pockets. Whether it be necessity or pleasure, we are under attack to survive.
I'll bet these gambling scam artists declined to respond. When I see pop-up ads during the games, it sets me off. I said very early that this kind of instant betting would seed this kind of addiction, and families would be damaged.
Now, I'm going to add what I said about this a while back: This convenient form of betting will ultimately destroy sports, and the result will be permanent damage, because once trust in the games is lost, we can never get it back.
This form of gambling breeds an atmosphere for game fixing, and the potential for corruption is only limited by the ethics of the gambling establishment, a bunch of thieves that have very little empathy or ethics. If you believe that this is just entertainment, you're a fool. This could even eventually empty the stands, and then where would we be? Nowhere good.
Another Robert's Court disaster ruling. The House always wins, unless it's a trump casino where the house goes bankrupt... The NFL is now more gambling enterprise than a sports league. I wonder how many unforced fumbles or deliberately dropped passes scored some big gains for the gambling hoards, and how much NFL insiders won in the betting parlors of their phones as they sat in their taxpayer funded stadium executive suites..