Paternalistic policies designed to squeeze the fun out of gambling target the wrong people

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Anyone over the age of 30 will remember the controversy over the 2005 Gambling Act and all that talk about "super-casinos". In the end, the super-casinos were never built and only a handful of normal casinos were ever created. The panic about casino gambling was soon overtaken by the panic about fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). The FOBTs have now been banished and anti-gambling activists have switched their attentions to online gambling....