RDD_1210
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- May 13, 2010
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I'm not saying people shouldn't gamble -- or smoke weed or patronize hookers. All of that is fine with me and I oppose government prohibiting any of those activities as strongly as you do. But that is not the issue. The issue is government cracking down on "fixed" Internet gambling. Cheating. Fraud.Bullshit...People are gambling, no matter how much the nanny statists tell them not to.
It's their money and time...If the want to spend them on games of chance, smoking weed or in the company of hookers, it's no skin off my ass.
I approve of government doing that.
Once again, you are spot on.
There is a difference between the government cracking down on online gambling, period, and the government cracking down on crooked online gambling. Although the article quoted in the OP does not make it as clear as it could, it seems to me that, in this case, the government is attempting to prevent fraud in the conduct of online gambling, NOT trying to close down ALL online gambling.
That would be incorrect. These are legit poker sites and the only *crooked* part is that the government wasn't getting its piece of the pie.