Online Gambling Bill Passed in House

rkcallaghan writes "The Washington Post is reporting that the House passed a measure that makes it illegal for banks in the US to handle online gambling transactions." There's still no such move in the Senate, but it's a step towards banning online gambling nonetheless. Since this bill isn't expected to affect the usual, legal ways of gambling domestically, one wonders if such legislation would be sought after, were online gambling to be headquartered here in the states, rather than overseas.

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Violation of personal liberty

[Toby The Economist]

It is a violation of personal liberty for the State to forceably intervene in citizen's lives in this way.

Gambling is a personal activity which, when not abused, harms no one else.

You do not outlaw an entire activity from ALL people because it can be abused; you simply take steps to deal with the problem of abusive.

The only justification for *forceable* intervention in another individual's life is *self-defence*.

This principle is the very antithisis of Big Government.

We pay tax through our noses for other people to progressively control our lives.

American Inquisition

[Doc Ruby]

That's nothing. This same House just passed the Theocracy Protection Act, and the Torture Lover Act.

Grand Inquisitor Abu Gonzales will now have the option of torturing you when god tells him you're bluffing.

Re:Legitimate Business?

[symbolic]

he Alcohol and Tobacco industries arn't built on a central pillar of trying to effectively con people out of money though.

I have to disagree with this - these industries are constantly trying to con you out of money by making you think that you will gain a more desirable social status by using their products. It has, and is, one of the biggest, and ongoing con games that exist. And the deadliest - remember those billions of dollars that the tobacco industry lost in the suit filed against it, wasn't the result of its charity work - it was the result of a decades-long campaign to engage in calculated and deceitful advertising that conned millions of people into believing that smoking cigarettes neither addictive nor unhealthy.