Sports Betting and Sports Gambling

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This shouldn't be a surprise, right? Because we have known, we know that gambling is an incredibly predatory industry. And so for some reason, its its being allowed, instead of the states actually considering, like, the well being of their citizens of their residence. I was listening to an episode of true and on recently where they were talking about the sports betting and sports gambling. So this seems like a really dangerousd and worrying development of where things are going,. But also how tehan and what tech is able to do, is enabling these really predatory and exploitative developments.

Paris Marx is joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition, how technology is enabling an extension of speculation and gambling, and why those pressures need to be opposed.

Edward Ongweso Jr. is a staff writer at Motherboard/Vice and a co-host of This Machine Kills. Follow Edward on Twitter at @bigblackjacobin.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

Edward wrote about Elon Musk’s Twitter acquisition and the casino economy we increasingly find ourselves in.
Paris wrote about Elon’s Twitter purchase for Jacobin before it was confirmed, and Tribune afterward.
Max Read also wrote about the acquisition and what it might mean.
CNN spoke to meme stock traders who made a lot of money and the difficulty of what came after.
TrueAnon did a recently episode on mobile gambling.
Tim Hwang wrote “Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet.”