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Sunday, September 18, 2005Online Gaming Prohibition Bill Fails Yet AgainThis past Thursday, US Senator John Kyl's appropriation bill aiming to prohibit online gaming was defeated, again. Kyl has been fighting against this issue for nearly 10 years now and continues to be unsuccessful. The proposed bill is attacking the online gaming industry, including, casinos, poker rooms and sports books, since in recent years have together grown to become a billion dollar industry. Kyl believes that this type of spending by consumers should be used in other, more prosperous ways for the nation. He also argues that this type of industry is very dangerous for the youth of America. He even calls online gaming the "crack-cocaine of the internet", since it is very easy for youth to take part in unsupervised and it is in turn very addictive, which can be very dangerous. Although online gambling is technically considered illegal in the United States, no action is actually taken against the gamblers. And although, most banks and credit card institutions will refuse a player to fund their online gaming account with funds from their banks/credit cards, this does not pose a problem for people who want to play. Many third party online banking systems have been developed where players can fund these accounts via their credit cards or bank accounts and then use these accounts to fud their online casino or poker bank roll. After many different tactics at getting this legislation passed by the Senate, Kyl's attempt this time was to attach the online gaming restriction to an annual spending bill. But due to a lack of connection between the two bills, it was quickly dismissed by the Senate and was said that maybe if the amendment had been attached to a Finance and Banking bill, it may have had a better shot of being passed. But this is not the last we will here or see of John Kyl and his aspirations of prohibiting online gaming as he has made it very clear that he will continue with his fight and that it is not over yet. | |
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