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317-93: The New Threat of the Online Casino Industry |
| Casinos in general have always suffered from dubious public relations. Just a short glimpse at our mirror of society, the movies, that is, will be suffice. The American society as it's reflected through media does not condone casinos- nothing good ever comes from spending your time in a land based or an online casino. In the best-case scenario you just lose your money, in the worst it's either your life or your wife. Despite all of the above the gambling industry has revenue of millions of dollars, and the online casino sites are right there at the heart of the party with a record-breaker rate of growth. Now it seems that the ancient negative view of casinos has extended to the new branch of the online casino sites with the new Bill the House of Representatives has just voted in favor: Bill number 317-93. In a nut shell this bill will make all payments, of any sort, to online casino sites illegal, and by that will in practice shut those sites down. The Bill also allows law enforcement agencies to block access to online casino web sites. The 317-93 bill is sponsored by Bob Goodlate a Republican representative of Virginia in The House oh Representatives. During his time in Congress Goodlate has built a reputation as a leader on the Internet and high-tech issues. He also gained a reputation of wanting to restrain the fast developing gambling industry. The supporters say that the online casino sites allow gambling in a relative easiness compare to a land-based casino. This easiness, so they say, leads to addiction problems and financial problems. On the other hand, some claim that this Bill only favors one gambling industry over the online casino sites. It really doesn’t matter who is right because numbers do not take sides. Hundreds thousands of people are now part of this thing called online casino industry, and they are not going to go away. So maybe banning online casino is to harsh. Limitation and proper supervision and taxing systems have proven themselves to be very useful methods. |
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