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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by lamontcg on Monday August 02, 2021 @02:40PM (#28040882)
There was a court decision recently (2 years ago?) that started to open up online gambling in the US.

I follow soccer, and right after that mlssoccer.com started publishing vegas betting odds for all the games, and ESPN FC started using UK betting odds for EPL and EUFA competitions.

They're definitely warming up Americans to the idea of normalizing betting and sports betting in the mainstream.

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Re:Why is China smashing its tech industry? by telxos on Monday August 02, 2021 @07:19PM (#28043926)
It was a change in sports betting. You really couldn't gamble on sports legally outside of the major casino sport books previously.

Keep in mind that black market sports betting is/was a multi billion dollar industry in the US so much of what you are seeing now is just more visible.

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