Ethics

Will Congress Lift Online Gambling Restrictions?

By Ed Brayton

The New York Times has an article about the possibility that the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act may be repealed. A push for it may result from a desire for more revenue:

But now, executives of some of the European companies whisper excitedly that they may soon get a second chance in the United States. Meanwhile, a number of European countries that have long maintained barriers are moving, under pressure from regulators, to legalize, and tax, online gambling.

"There's still a lot of gambling going on, where there's no revenue coming in to the governments," said Gavin Kelleher, an analyst at the research firm H2 Gambling Capital in Ireland. "They realize they could use the revenue."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 02, 2009 (boomark / email).