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Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Online Gambling Ban

Has anyone heard anything about the online gambling ban? If you have, do you know how said ban will affect companies such as Neteller? If Neteller is in fact affected, will one still be able to transfer money from a Neteller account into an American bank account? All of this is purely hypothetical, of course.

My two cents as to this matter is that this is utter bullshit. This is the US government ruling in favor of corporations over individual citizens right to make a living. Gambling is legal in every state, at least in the form of lotteries. There are tribal casinos all over the place. I hate that idiot taxes such as lottos, scratch tickets, and pull tabs are left in place while online poker, blackjack, sportsbooks, the games with the lowest or non-existent house advantages, the games that involve actual talent or ability to exploit inefficient systems, are affected. Argh.

I'm moving to Iceland.

1 Comments:

Blogger Eric B said...

Neteller will be ok since it's not an American company. There is a chance the law won't even go into effect! It appears that outlawing online gambling violates the US agreements with the WTO. We better get a Democrat in office soon.

You can sign the petition on my site

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