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A major complaint against the US online casino gambling industry centers on the fact that the US specifically discriminates against foreign internet gambling sites while allowing certain sectors of the internet gambling industry to flourish in the US market. Those opponents of the internet gambling industry claim that the online casinos are dangerous for the nation’s youth – that is the premise under which some politicians have justified the UIGEA. At the same time, sportsbetting is a sector of the market that is shielded from the UIGEA enforcement efforts by specific carve-outs designed to protect American internet betting sites that operate for horseracing and other sanctioned sporting events. The latest controversy in the online gambling industry centers on the fact that ESPN is now sponsored by the Youbet.com site and liberally advertises on ESPN.

If the argument against offshore online casinos centers on the underage gambling debate then there is a big issue with the fact ESPN is offering up advertisements for internet betting. The ESPN demographic of viewers most certainly contains a large percentage of teenage and underage males. The fact that the Youbet.com site is now allowed to advertise on the network and within site of the youth is concerning for offshore online casino betting companies that vacated the US market on the premise of youth protection.

There is a lot of hypocrisy in this latest move by ESPN – and it seems as though every state is in on it. Although the Kentucky government has become notorious for the latest efforts to prevent foreign online casinos and betting companies from accessing the market, Kentucky has willing aired the Youbet.com advertisements throughout this past horseracing season.