Whether you want to call it “iGaming,” “Internet gambling” or “non-traditional games,” the District’s first-of-its-kind online gambling program faced withering criticism from members of the D.C. Council at a hearing yesterday.

If yesterday’s Ward 5 town hall on the District’s controversial new i-Gaming platform is any indication, it’s not really the idea of online gambling that has residents put off — but rather how the idea came to be and where the money it’s supposed to generate will go.