02-18-2006, 08:58 AM
Quote:US politicians have launched a fresh bid to stop overseas internet gambling sites reaching American users.
The move comes in the shape of a new bill being introduced in the House of Representatives with support from both Republican and Democrat members.
The bill aims to extend existing laws that ban interstate telephone gambling.
It would, however, fall foul of a World Trade Organization ruling last August that the US must not block online gambling sites based overseas.
full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4723814.stm
Quote:Gamble online and you could go to jail...
Gambling is bad. That's why the act only outlaws it when it takes place across state lines. When kept within state boundaries, it's apparently not so bad, and the bill does nothing to limit the rights of states to authorize gambling within their borders. As such, it seems bizarrely inconsistent and points up the contradictions in current US law as it applies to gambling. If the goal is stop money from being lost and laundered to shady outfits based in Antigua, then why is Internet gambling banned within the US as well? If the goal is to save citizens from addictive behaviors, then why do legal commercials run on my TV every night encouraging me to come to Vegas or drive down the road thirty minutes to Aurora?
full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060217-6204.html
related topic: Online Gaming Outfit 888 Holdings IPO Valued at £700m http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...289.0.html