Bill Moves Forward To Re-Legalize Online Poker
from the ante-up dept
Looks like having poker lobbyists setting poker tables at both presidential conventions this year was effective. A new bill is successfully moving its way through Congress that would effectively re-legalize online poker, reversing a law passed two years ago that made it illegal for financial institutions to accept payment for online gambling (all in the name of national security, of course).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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Good for Copyright Owners
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The judgment wasn't any more ridiculous than the US basically retroactively changing the terms of a treaty.
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Damn the government for restricting a voluntary activity that harms no one.(unless one gamble too much but that's your own fault)
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Who Cares . . .
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And WHY do you suppose that is?
STUPID SHIT such as banning gambling. Especially online. What you don't seem to know is that a good deal of that money actually goes into our now-shitty economy.
You're putting the cart before the horse.
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Adults and their money
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Because those are COMPLETELY SEPARATE ISSUES.
Idiot. Don't be so ignorantly opposed to something that DOESN'T HURT YOU in ANY way; but you can actually BENEFIT from when money is flowing back into our economy.
You WREAK of conservatism.
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Re: Adults and their money
If prostitutes wish to sell their body for money, that is their business. Who are you to judge.
And by the way, tobacco deaths this year were over 440,000. Marijuana deaths were 0, just as they were for each of the previous 5000 years.
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Absolutely.
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...people GENERALLY try to AVOID marrying people who have venereal diseases. HOW is a prostitute any better than marrying someone you [should be able to] trust?
Wow. Plenty of stupid people out lately...
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A step in the right direction.
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Vote on this bill
This is the 2nd TechDirt article I've seen recently that was for a bill, where the majority of the comments were also for the bill, but the vote survey was against it.
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Heh. I was just noticing the same thing... Who knows...
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The kneejerk reaction doesn't really surprise me, given that so much legislation over the past few years has been so completely anti-consumer, anti-freedom, anti-citizen. If you don't feel like wading through the legalese, voting "No" seems like a safe bet.
Just the same, though, if you don't have an informed opinion, maybe voting ain't your bag?
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Don't take this the wrong way but the oversimplified "for/against" mentality is one of the more dangerous aspects of politics. It's what leads to pithy sound bites rather than substantive statements.
For example, you can be against online gambling restrictions and still not be for this bill because you disagree with the exceptions. If you vote yes for what you consider to be a fatal compromise, then you basically give up on your chance to get the bill you really want passed.
Maybe there's already a way to do this, but I would like the ability to not only look up how my representatives vote, but their reasons. How hard would it be to allow for a (short) optional Reason field when voting? (I know. I know. Harder than you'd think.)
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On Line Gambling
Bill
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Just saying the major online poker providers started out as US companies, and moved to "friendlier" climes to circumvent the laws only after they were forced to.
Again, I'm struck by a realization (that I'm sure NO ONE has EVER had before): "Prohibition creates crime!"
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Really Frank?
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You can play this but not that
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Bill Moves Forward To Re-Legalize Online Poker
The states rip citizens off every day with their lotto and scratchoffs but we can't play online poker?
Where is the justice? Power to the people...
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Talking
Yes , evan prostitutes (not all) may be good woman :) ..and she "sell" only body , but this is questionable at all.
Tabacco vs Marijuana is not questionable , Tabacco kill me and all people who smoking that ... :)
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