Of course it is. Its using the power of government to come in and handle something saying people are too impotent to handle their own issues and need bureaucrats invited in to be able to get them to stop spending their own money in ways that they apparently can't help themselves. We need to regulate everything because the lowest common denominators of society are too bad at managing themselves and their own lives so we have to make it so no one is allowed to do something. People with addictive personalities and no self control will, inevitably, ruin their lives and spend all their money on something. I am deeply opposed to regulating things to try and protect them because it is an inevitability and their responsibility to deal with, not for society to be molded around them to protect them. It's the same logic that gets us gun control, hate speech restrictions, knife control, licenses for everything, all that bullshit and my principles don't change just because they want to make something I personally detest illegal. The bar to legally ban something or severely regulate it remains extraordinarily high because I believe in the ability of people to be responsible and that it is on them to bear the consequences of their own decisions and actions.