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Hearing on net gambling

Online 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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Frank introduces anti-ban bill

In 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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Online poker will go on

All 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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Internet Gambling Prohibition summarized

Do 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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UnSAFE for online gambling

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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Net gambling “ban”

Cultural conservatives, anti-gamblers, and others opposed to gambling on the Internet scored a victory this Sunday when Congress slipped the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act into an unrelated port security bill, thus banning gambling on the Internet. Or did they? Yahoo.finance uk explains: It’s a safe bet that the passage of anti-Internet gambling legislation by

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