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My favorite part: "The law was passed out of concern that sports gambling might change the nature of sporting events from wholesome entertainment to a device for gambling."

Sports, by its nature, is zero sum. For every winner there is a loser. That is the attraction. That's why leisure activities like fishing, ice skating and dancing wind up as competitions,

Which ostrich thinks gambling hasn't always been the single largest driver of sports viewership?

 

Henry posted:

Tell me, what is Citizens United btw?

A group of people who wanted to show a movie.  FedGov tried to say, nope, you don't have the right of assembly or the free speech rights to do it.

It should have been a 9-0 "F*** off, slaver" decision in favor of Citizens United.  The fact that it wasn't is the POS part of the decision.

Fedya posted:
Henry posted:

Tell me, what is Citizens United btw?

A group of people who wanted to show a movie.  FedGov tried to say, nope, you don't have the right of assembly or the free speech rights to do it.

It should have been a 9-0 "F*** off, slaver" decision in favor of Citizens United.  The fact that it wasn't is the POS part of the decision.

BS. For 137 years the Supreme Court had held that Corporations were NOT people. Not entitled to the same free speech rights. Your summary of it is simplistic.

 

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