Question by lingt69: What are your thoughts on the online gambling prohibition act tacked onto the end of an antiterrorism bill?
The act was passed Saturday, Sep 30. It prohibits online gambling by placing criminal sanctions on financial institutions and banks if they fund an entity involved in “illegal gambling” operations. Some things such as horseracing and fantasy sports have been carved out/excluded from the definition of illegal gambling, but common games such as poker and blackjack are hit.

I will admit my bias and say that this legislation is crap. The government should not be telling us what we can and cannot do with our own money. They say it’s to protect the children and to stop gambling addictions… there are many other less restrictive yet more effective means to protect children from gambling websites such as universal age-verification accounts (which could be implemented if the government looked into regulation instead of prohibition). As for addicts…. I’ve never heard an addict complain that he couldn’t find a place to gamble his money away. Taking this away doesn’t help the addiction

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Answer by Brand X
Per NPR, the Brits who are the current leaders in internet gambling are complaining that this was just an attempt to unfairly restrict them…to the benefit of American firms.

Answer by Chris J
I think it’s ridiculous. If you want to gamble all of your money away, you should be able to go ahead and do that. But, we’d better not see anyone try to sue an online gaming site for “allowing” them to gamble away their life savings.

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