Another week, another smug, alarmist anti-online gambling editorial, this time from the Christian Science Monitor: Fresh from fixing Wall Street’s casinolike ways in high finance, Congress begins work Tuesday on a bill to overturn a 2006 law banning Internet gambling in the US. The measure is being rushed through the House Financial Services Committee on […]
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news about gamblingOnline gamblers can breathe easy: Congress is now on the case. This Friday, a panel will discuss whether or not it is possible to regulate online gaming. From ABC: A U.S. House of Representatives panel said on Monday it will hold a hearing on Friday to look at Internet gambling, which is effectively banned in
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news about gamblingIn what might be the opening salvo of a campaign to reverse 46 years of federal anti-cross-border gambling action, Barney Frank has introduced a bill to legalize Internet gaming. From Marketwatch: Attempting to roll back a ban on online gambling, House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank introduced on Thursday a bill that would permit
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news about gamblingFor a long time, I’ve been a little surprised that the US/WTO online gaming case hasn’t gotten more mainstream press. Now the tide may be turning. This LA Times editorial is a case in point: ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA, former British colonies on the eastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, are smaller than Los Angeles and
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news about gamblingThe WTO is fed up with good old-fashioned American intransigence, at least as far as online gambling goes. From Ars Technica: The tiny Caribbean nation of Antigua and Barbuda has just won a World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling against the US regarding online gambling. The WTO has ruled that the US “has failed to comply
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news about gamblingI just love this headline: Tiny Antigua grabs the US by its illegal, online dice. The story is interesting, too: Has the time actually come for Congress to read its own legislation? In the wee hours before Congressmen could head off for their election year recess, they managed to churn out a mound of unread
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news about gamblingAll you people who get really worked up over gambling online, click over to the article and bang your chest at the denoument. It’s from Yahoo!News: It was getting late on Oct. 12, the night before a sweeping anti-Internet gambling bill would be signed into law. Paul McGuire was at his computer, enjoying one last
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news about gamblingThe Russian State Duma–their version of parliament–voted down a bill that would have created a new regulatory framework for Russian casinos. Existing regulation, it seems, is something of a slapdash affair. From RIA Novosti: The bill’s doom does not mean gamblers and casino proprietors have several more years to enjoy the absence of related legislation,
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news about gamblingDo you want to know just what the “Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition” is? I’ve printed out all 107 pages of the “Security and Accountability For Every Port Act of 2006,” AKA, the SAFE Port Act, and, skipping ahead to page 94, I’ll summarize the relevant bits for you. Section 801 of the SAFE Port
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news about gamblingAre online poker sites in the United States in the post-ban world, or out? Card Player has a few answers: In the past few days, we have received definitive confirmation that the following companies are not pulling out of the United States: Full Tilt, Bodog, Full Contact Poker, Doyle’s Room and the Doyle Brunson Network,
Many people have been writing about the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement act, so I thought it might be a good idea to punch up the actual text of the SAFE Port Act, H.R. 4954, which the House and Senate passed and have forwarded to the president, along with my comments. So what will this bill
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news about gamblingThere has been a great deal of ambiguity about the WTO decision in the Antigua/US dispute. Both sides have claimed victory, and there is no real roadmap for what is going to happen. I’m chairing a session on this at G2E, which may feature debate between representatives of the US and Antigua, or may not.
I always tell my students that history has three components: source documents, without which we would have nothing to write about; historical writing, which puts the raw material of the past into context and makes it relevant; and readers, without whom the whole exercise would be fruitless. You write books because you want people to
Proponents of the ban on Internet funding, including Rep. Michael Oxley of Ohio, have contended that bank instruments used in online gaming can facilitate money-laundering and terrorism. So, for the second time, they are moving to graft the ban onto the USA PATRIOT act. From Interactive Gaming News: Oxley, chairman of the House Committee on
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news about gamblingIt looks like the mainstream media is picking up a story reported on the Internet last week about BetOnSports’ David Carruthers’s campaign to bring online gaming regulation before the public. From the LVRJ: But unless Congress abandons efforts to prohibit Internet gambling. Carruthers said, the United States stands to lose billions of dollars in potential
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news about gamblingThe parent company of BetonSports.com, a big Internet wagering site, has announced that it will launch an initiative called “Proposition 1: To Regulate or Prohibit Online Gambling?” which will bring the question of the legality of online gambling before the United States public. From yahoo, who just ran the press release: The initiative will be
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