US Faces $100 Billion Fine For Web Gambling Ban

Stony Stevenson writes with the news that the World Trade Organization is seeking billions of dollars in compensation from the United States from their ban on internet gambling. The view of the WTO is that the US has reneged on commitments to the organization. "The disputed concessions arise from Antigua's victory earlier this year when the WTO ruled that the US violated its treaty obligations by excluding online Antiguan gaming operators, while allowing domestic operators to offer various forms of online gaming. Instead of complying with the ruling, the Bush administration withdrew the sizeable gambling industry from its free trade commitments. As a result, all 151 WTO members are considering seeking compensation for the withdrawal equal to the size of the entire US land-based and online gaming market, estimated at nearly US$100 billion."

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Re:Good!

[OriginalArlen]

Absolutely, it's great news. Who knows, perhaps they'll release the people they illegally seized for daring to be in an aircraft that landed in the US to refuel on the way down to somewhere civilised (Antigua I believe) just because they broke US law in the UK and Antigua, which are not yet part of the USA.

Oh wait, now I'm just being silly, if they did that they'd have to stop kidnapping citizens of other countries from the streets of third party countries, and disappearing them into the CIA's torture dungeons, because they were stupid enough to share the same surname as someone the CIA reckon might once have said hello to a "terrorist". Yeah, sorry, pinch me someone, I'm dreaming...

Re:My dick!

[DaveInAZ]

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