Online Gambling Ban Totally Unworkable
The Nevada director for the Poker Players Alliance - group with more than 1 million members nationwide and 12,870 in Nevada, are concerned to read that Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., wants to speed up enforcement of the vaguely and broadly written law banning Internet gambling - the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act.
The confusion regulators are dealing with as they develop the regulations to enforce the law is a direct result of how this act was written and sneaked into a must-pass port security bill in the dead of night, allowing no time for review and debate.
One of the most egregious flaws in the bill is that it does not define *unlawful Internet gambling,* clearly something that legislation making Internet gambling unlawful should include.
This law is clearly unworkable, as regulators, bankers and several members of Nevada’s congressional delegation have publicly stated. To truly place checks and balances on Internet gambling, Congress should look to existing legislation that would seek to regulate online gambling in order to protect children and problem gamblers and collect the billions of dollars in lost tax revenue from these transactions.
Let’s not blame regulators for struggling to enact his flawed and ambiguous bill and start looking for workable solutions to truly regulate this growing online industry.
(THE WRITER IS NEVADA DIRECTOR OF THE POKER PLAYERS ALLIANCE).
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