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House Judiciary Meeting on Internet Gambling

The US house judiciary met today and discussed internet gambling. Annie Duke was at the judiciary meeting and was taking on many of the advocates to ban internet gambling. She did a great job arguing her point that the US has legalized gambling in 48 states so it hard for people to claim a moral standpoint when people can walk into a brick and mortar casino in almost every state. Why would internet gambling be any different?

The trend in the meeting was the people against internet gambling were against all gambling in the first place. So it isn’t that internet gambling is worse then any other gambling but it is easier to try to ban then already established offline gaming laws so they are focusing on it.

From what I watched it looked like people are leaning towards Barney Frank’s bill of regulation. I think they are starting to realize that banning internet gambling won’t work and if we regulate there will be a huge flux of money that stays in the US rather then going offshore.