Feds Admit They Have No Clue How To Enforce Anti-Online Gambling Legislation
from the please-clarify dept
In the fall of 2006, Congress (for reasons that have never been explained) put a clause banning online gambling into a bill supposedly about protecting our ports (so no one would vote against it). Since then there's been an ongoing legal effort to get that part of the law overturned. It's particularly upset financial institutions who are told they need to stop gambling operations from accepting money -- though, they're not quite sure how to do that. To top it all off, even the federal officials who are charged with enforcing this law are now admitting that they have absolutely no clue how to enforce it, noting that the legislation itself is incredibly broad and unclear. In other words, we have a law that almost no one wants and which those in charge of enforcing have no idea how to enforce (or even why they should enforce it). So why did it get passed in the first place? Well, at least our ports are safe.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Well ..
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself"
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Unfortunately, they aren't idiots ...
What they are is bought. We need to find a way to break the control money has over our governments. I don't know how to do it; it would be great if Lessig has some workable plans, but I'm not hopeful about that.
And Mike, about that quote at the end: "Well, at least our ports are safe." Is there any indication at all that they are any safer than they would have been without the bill?
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Re: Unfortunately, they aren't idiots ...
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twain was right
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Online Gambling
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Re: Online Gambling
DING DING DING
Mr Bush didn't have his hand in the cookie jar so he got upset and tried to do what he could to ban online gambling.
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if
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Easy
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follow the money
Once that part is known, then the answer is always: "Follow the money". Some powerful flunky in the legislative branch has a vested interest, either by way of a campaign contribution or by out and out bribery.
Follow the money.
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dah!!!
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