Growth in gambling - Time to face up to online betting issue

THE gambling and pornography industries are two of the primary users of the greatest communication tool ever put at man’s disposal — the internet.

Whether this represents the best use of the enrichment available on www.whatever.com is a subjective question. After all, one man’s anonymous, arm’s length online flirting is another man’s indecent calumny.

However, what is not subjective are the consequences of the misuse of one internet facility — or, as their self-serving advocates suggest, entertainment.