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i have no sympathy for a drug dealer

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Hmmm censorship on the internet...

always a dangerous move....

more than well discussed everywhere

- my opinion -

bad idea - not in relation to kids playing poker sites or casinos etc..but once you start with any form of censorship, freedom of speech etc. is out the window ...😡😡!!

[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]I don't read this as actual censorship. This is a form of access restriction based upon age, much like entrance to certain movies. Actual content will not be affected, only whether you are allowed to see it or not. . .[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]I am curious as to what methodology will be used to properly ascertain exactly how old a user of the internet is. Credit card possession is the general method in the US, but it's in no way foolproof. Are people going to need to submit copies of birth certificates and ID cards before they can access "dangerous" websites?[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]And I just find this another instance in which parents depend upon the government to do the job they can't or won't do themselves. . .[/FONT]
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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]I'm under the impression that this is to be used in Great Britain and/or Europe as I have not heard of anything like this being proposed in the United States. . .[/FONT]

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed in 2006 and going into effect June 1, will prohibit financial institutions from transferring funds to any illegal Internet gambling site (this does not include fantasy sports, online lotteries, and horse/harness racing sites).

A group of House leaders, however, led by representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), are seeking to repeal the act so as to legalize and tax the online gaming industry. Besides stating that American adults believe they should have the right to do what they want with their own money, including gamble, the representatives argue that state governments could benefit immensely from taxes generated from the online games.

(The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act had already been delayed in November, when the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve gave financial institutions six months longer to comply with the law, acknowledging that it is sometimes difficult to tell what is classified as illegal gambling.)

People tend to think that the only time online gambling comes into play is when sports fans place a wager on a game, or poker players take to online tournaments, which could not be further from the truth. What most people fail to realize is the number of entertainment betting categories there are available to online bettors. Every reputable online sportsbooks offers some type of American Idol Betting lines.

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The deadline for the future of online gambling in the United States is nearly upon us. The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, otherwise known as the UIGEA, is set to take effect on 1 June. However, there is a group of people, led by Republicans Barney Frank and Jim McDermott, lobbying strongly for it to be repealed. Their proposal would see the legalisation and taxation of online gambling.

McDermott makes the point that many Americans are currently gambling online yet the country and lawmakers are turning a blind eye to it.

Under their bill, a tax of 6 per cent would be levied on all deposits and paid to the state or tribal government where the player is a resident. Plus the federal government would benefit from an additional 2 per cent of all deposits. The congressional Joint Committee on Taxation has estimated that such a plan would generated a staggering $30 billion in revenue for states and tribal governments and a further $42 billion for the federal government over the next decade.

McDermott argues that this source of money is too valuable and desperately needed for communities in today's economy to be ignored. He has also put forward the argument that adults ought to have the right to do as they please with their own money without interference from the government.

Professional sports leagues, however, are opposed to the bill as they believe it will increase wagers placed on their matches. They are joined in their opposition by a number of Christian charity organisations.

The bill was due to be considered in the House Financial Services Committee late last week, however, was cancelled. A vote is now due in spring and all online casinos - and some not yet invented - are watching developments closely hoping to tap into a new and huge source of revenue.

Under the UIGEA, banks will be responsible for monitoring all credit card transactions to catch players who play at offshore sites.

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Some lawmakers want to roll the dice on internet gambling. They're hoping to make online sites legal in the US.

Right now online gamblers are forced to bet on off shore sites since US internet gambling sites are illegal. However some lawmakers want to change that.

Port Byron native Nick Peters has been gambling online for almost a decade. He says as a gambler, online sites offer you the best chance to earn big. "As far as profitability goes," says Peters, "a lot of people prefer online cause of the speed and they can play 7,8.9 tables at once."

Like all online gamblers in the US, Peters is forced to gamble on foreign websites. He says he thinks the US is missing out. "It happens anyway, millions of Americans play off shore sites. They might as well make money on it."

Some lawmakers hope to legalize online gambling and put a tax on deposits that would help state government. Peters say he welcomes more sites to increase competition, but the tax might deter some. "As far as taxing deposits, off shore sites don't do that. So that might be something US sites struggle with."

If gambling sites were made legal in the US, Peters says he doesn't think land casinos would lose business. "You can only play online so long before you miss holding the cards in your hand," says Peters.

The American Gaming Association says if online sites are made legal, it wants sites to be held to the same standards as land casinos.

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Pokie machines are being blamed for a big hike in the number of the problem gamblers seeking help in 2009.

The Health Ministry today reported a 25 percent increase in clients to problem gambling intervention services compared to the 2008 calendar year.

Almost 70 percent of clients who sought help were new clients.

The ministry's minimising harm group manager Barbara Phillips said it was pleasing to see that those with problems were seeking help.

"Problem gambling continues to be a significant problem for some. We know from international experience that those seeking help are only a small proportion of overall problem gambling prevalence."

The ministry said though all forms of gambling were contributing to a rise in problem gamblers seeking help, most problem gamblers reported problems with pokie machines.

There are 19,000 pokie machines spread throughout pubs and clubs nationwide.

The four main gambling sub-sectors- casinos, New Zealand Lotteries Commission, New Zealand Racing Board and the non-casino gaming machine sector were all reported by problem gamblers as a primary problem.

Online gambling industry officials meeting in Calgary this week say they'd like to see governments move to protect players from unscrupulous sites.

The Calgary Herald reported Wednesday Canadians spend about $1 billion a year gambling online, part of a $30 billion global market.

While it is legal to gamble online in Canada, it is illegal to operate an Internet gambling site in the country. John FitzGerald, president of the Interactive Gaming Council who is in Calgary for the Canadian Gaming Summit, says it's time to change that situation, arguing that legalizing and regulating the industry would better protect players.

Side benefits would be employment and tax revenue gains, he says.

"It would create more jobs, more innovation through technology ... and it could create more revenue for government," FitzGerald said.

Alberta provincial regulatory officials say they are taking a hands-off stance for now.

"We remain in a monitoring mode," said Lynn Hutchings-Mah, spokeswoman for the Alberta Gaming and Liquor Commission. "It's a decision that would have to be made by the Alberta government."

Gerry McLennan, the commission's chief executive, adds that the province still would have no control over offshore operators.

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Official Clarifies: Online Gambling is Not Illegal in Canada!

As this year’s Canadian Gaming Summit continues, the focus seems to be on online gambling, rather than its usual themes of land-based technology and industry developments. Many professionals have taken the event as an opportunity to come forward and voice their opinions about Canadian online gambling laws.

John Fitzgerald, president of Canada’s Interactive Gaming Council, decided to clarify the country’s online gambling laws, a topic that has seen much debate over the past few months. He states that the main issue is not whether or not Canadians have the right to gamble online; instead, it is a matter of whether or not Canadian online casinos can legally offer their services to residents.

He states that most provinces do not grant licenses to online gambling websites, so those that are in existence are operating illegally. However, the Kahnawake Gaming Commission has stepped in, granting licenses to online casinos that it deems worthy of becoming official online gambling establishments. In fact, many of the world’s most popular online casinos are licensed by the KGC, including Spin Palace.

One of the major concerns of Canadian politicians is that online gambling revenues (totaling more than $1 billion every year) are going to offshore operators. If they did their research, however, they would discover that the vast majority of Canadian gambling websites are regulated by the KGC (a small territory outside of Montreal).

Although the Canadian Gaming Summit has presented a great opportunity for officials to discuss online gambling laws, there is still much more ground to be covered – and OnlineCasino.org will keep you updated.

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The American Bankers Association has finally made their concerns known regarding the imposed responsibility they have to uphold the prohibition rules on online gambling in the USA. Steve Kenneally, the Vice President of the American Bankers Association, stated recently that the full implementation of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Enforcement Act would be an expensive and ineffective way for the American government to deal with online gambling. He added the Act has no real control over online gambling activity, which will result in a waste of taxpayer’s money. The banks are only able to stop transactions to online casinos if they are identified as being an online gambling operation. There are many ways an operator from an offshore location can mask or disguise their identities with the result being they will go undetected by most financial institutions, making the law preventing the transmission of funds to customers in the USA not effective. Kenneally explained that the government has not clarified it's definition of “unlawful transaction” and “illegal gambling”, which has left officials from various banks to interpret for themselves which transactions they should block and what they will allow. There are many grey areas in those interpretations that the bankers have had trouble with before. Some online gambling activity such as lotteries and horseracing is legal in certain states in the USA. A large number of banks and credit card companies have put a stop on the wrong transactions by mistake. A few European countries consider poker and sports betting as a process that requires skill and therefore allow transactions from those online gambling activities. Again it has been difficult for the banking industry to sort out which are legal and which are not. It will cost the banks an enormous amount of money to put in place a system in America that can effectively lock the proper online gambling exchanges, costs that the general pubic will eventually be obliged to pay.

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The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed in 2006 and going into effect June 1, will prohibit financial institutions from transferring funds to any illegal Internet gambling site (this does not include fantasy sports, online lotteries, and horse/harness racing sites).

A group of House leaders, however, led by representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Jim McDermott (D-Wash.), are seeking to repeal the act so as to legalize and tax the online gaming industry. Besides stating that American adults believe they should have the right to do what they want with their own money, including gamble, the representatives argue that state governments could benefit immensely from taxes generated from the online games.

"This is a huge boon to the state governments," McDermott said. "If you look across the country you're seeing programs cut. In Arizona, they just cut out a program for children's health for 40,000 kids. Here's a source of money."

The representatives propose a 6% tax on deposits be paid to state and tribal governments and a 2% tax on deposits be paid to the federal government. The payments are based on the gambler's residence regardless of the Web service's location, so that, for example, a resident of California would pay taxes to the government of California whenever playing online gambling games.

Such taxes would generate $30 billion for state and tribal governments and $42 billion for the federal government over the next decade, according to the US Congress Joint Committee on Taxation.

The proposal, of course, is not without its opponents.

"This basically creates a national casino and there's no time they won't be operating,'' said Chad Hills, policy and research analyst for Focus on the Family. "We already have between 15 and 20 million people in the U.S. with a pathological gambling problem.''

The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act had already been delayed in November, when the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve gave financial institutions six months longer to comply with the law, acknowledging that it is sometimes difficult to tell what is classified as illegal gambling.

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Two major casino groups have indicated that they are in full preparedness to move into the American online gaming market once it is legalized. One group is Harrah's, which is the largest land casino group in the world and which has recently added online presence in the United Kingdom. The other group is PartyGaming, which is one of the leading online gambling operators that once operated in the United States but was compelled to withdraw because of the legal situation there.

Representative barney Frank has had many supporters for his proposed online gambling legislation in the US. One state, however, where support has been lukewarm, is Nevada. Representative Dina Titus is demonstrating that there may be a changing of the guard in the nation's gaming capital.

Just a couple of weeks ago, Rep. Titus added her name to a list of co-sponsors for Frank's H.H. 2267 Bill. Titus and Rep. William Owens of New York became the sixty-seventh and sixty-eighth co-sponsors for the bill that would lay the foundation for a regulated Internet gambling industry in the country. :thumbsup

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[FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]It would be just peachy keen fantastic if our elected leaders could actually get something done before June 1. Or, failing that, at least start considering another delay of UIGEA implementation based on signs of progress. . .[/FONT]

As more Canadian provinces move toward operating online gambling sites through their respective lotteries, some citizens of the country are saying it's time Canada also began regulating the Internet casinos operated overseas and used by Canadian residents.

Advocates at the Canadian Gaming Summit say online gambling is just another form of entertainment, like sports or movies. However, the danger in Internet gaming lies in the lack of protection from scams and fraud residents suffer when they play unregulated games.

The president of the Interactive Gaming Council, John FitzGerald, says that allowing online gambling to be legally operated by private companies would automatically bring better regulation, along with other benefits.

So far, provinces willing to allow online gambling have done so not for consumer safety, but so as to monopolize the industry, reserving the revenue for themselves.

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