The biggest story in the legalized sports betting industry right now isn't the upcoming NFL Draft, it isn't the Nikola Jokic potential MVP three-peat, and it isn't which team is best positioned to win the World Series.
Nope. The biggest story in sports betting right now, at least for those inside the industry, is the way legislators and regulators have started questioning how much leeway the operators should have when it comes to advertising their legal product.
On Monday, four chief regulators met up for a chat at the Seton Hall Law “Gaming Law, Compliance, and Integrity Bootcamp” in Newark, New Jersey, and they offered four different perspectives on how to handle the issue, running the gamut from a top-down approach to more of a “let boys be boys” style of regulation.
Robert Williams, the executive director of the New York State Gaming Commission, was clearly looking at the issue from that “top down” perspective.