Internet Gambling: A Bad “Deal” - legislation approved by US Congress to ban online gambling in its US audience facing operations. In his famous novel, G. Orwell depicted a world entirely controlled by the state, the Party and the Big Brother. The ruling party maintains social and individual order by authoritarian rule, complete cover up of overall history and ultimate mind and action servility propaganda.
Even the slightest unrest of thought is castigated and scorched out by breaking personality and spirit. There is no personal remedy and freedom. The world itself is in the mouth of madness, begotten by conspiracy and paranoid fear of liberty.
Of course at the time written the book itself was a futuristic projection of the author’s reason.
However today with September 30, 2006 as a start day, there appears to be a menace of the countdown on personal freedom to start ticking.
On September 30, 2006 the House of Representatives and Senate approved the bill that would make it illegal for banks and credit card companies to make payments to online gambling sites facing US audience i.e. the gambling entity would simply never be able to collect the debt owed by the gambler.
Gambling regulating legislation in US with the 1961 federal law banning interstate telephone betting has also been used to cover an array of what is now known as online gambling and wagering. Even though proclaiming the status of gambling operations being illegal, this legislation still tolerated millions of Americans challenging their luck every day.
Today with the Congress approving the latest bill regarding online gambling, industry’s crack down is expected to take place with a major shift to Asian-Pac market (mobile betting services, bingo and backgammon occupying the thickest slice of the pie) and some of British-based gaming companies (PartyGaming Plc, 888 holdings Plc) have already taken off the US gambling stage.
Advocates of US facing online gambling restrictions and Sen. Jon Kyl, an Arizona Republican and a chief sponsor of the measure firmly state that "It's [the bill] been over 10 years in the making. The enforcement provisions provided by this bill will go a long way to stop these illegal online operations."
A lot can be said in terms of morality, ethical questions and billions of money being lost (some 50% of the annual $12 bln online market turnover), yet there is something else – suppression of a man’s personal choice, his freedom vs state control and the entire nation being kept under governmental surveillance.
Is this a problem only for gaming operators or the issue that every gambler should be concerned about? Arguing that by banning online gambling cash outflow to offshore companies is drastically reduced, there is no regulation of offline wagers and bets.
Thus spoke the government of US and the Party.
The tempest is yet to come.
Look at Pr. Bush playing online Poker Cartoon
http://www.gamblinggates.com/
