The Countries: Forget it, Burkina Faso, Michigan is still the worst.

[MissThundercat]

Lula: bans sports betting and announces a debt relief program.

Apparently, Elder Bolsonaro let betting run unregulated. Lula's government tried to rein it in, but that didn't work, so the Brazilian government said "we're done here."

Lula bans fixed-odds sports betting a week before Brazilian elections

President’s ‘hard, drastic and necessary measure’, likely to attract widespread public support, polls suggest

www.theguardian.com

 

[aparch]

ProPublica has a great article how one reporter purposely bet as if he was a problem gambler to see if the gambling sites would kick him off.

They promoted him to VIP and kept milking him.

I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.

Amid growing public health concerns, operators like DraftKings have touted “responsible gaming” tools and prompts. But as I went off the deep end, I found they were no match for the incentives and product design pushing me to keep going.

www.propublica.org

 

[Kepler]

Lula: bans sports betting and announces a debt relief program.

Apparently, Elder Bolsonaro let betting run unregulated. Lula's government tried to rein it in, but that didn't work, so the Brazilian government said "we're done here."

Lula bans fixed-odds sports betting a week before Brazilian elections

President’s ‘hard, drastic and necessary measure’, likely to attract widespread public support, polls suggest

www.theguardian.com

I doubt we could do that. Any president who tried would get Zaprudered.

 

[MissThundercat]

I doubt we could do that. Any president who tried would get Zaprudered.

...while we'd hear a message of "we can't ban gambling because it's in the Bible. You don't want to make Jesus cry, or do you?"