U.S. President Bush is expected to sign a bill this week which makes it harder for gamblers to place bets on the Internet.
Bush was expected to act quickly after Congress approved the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act making it illegal for financial institutions and credit card companies to process payments to settle Internet bets. It also created stiff penalties for online wagers.
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The bill’s chief Senate sponsor was conservative Republican Jon Kyl, who, like Leach, has said he believed Internet gambling was a moral threat. He has called online betting as the Internet version of crack cocaine.
Gambling is regulated in the Netherlands as well. To ‘protect’ the people from, umh, well, themselves they have decided that the government should regulate it and… receive lots and lots of money from gambling. Hilarious: one should not gamble, yet when one does it nonetheless, the government is standing by to cash in bigtime. The utter hypocrisy of a ‘moral government’. Absolutely ridiculous.
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