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It seems that every American affected by the online casino gambling restrictions has some opinion on how the government should fix the unclear and imprecise restrictions currently found in the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. A recent article in the LA Times stresses that the current bill deals in hypocrisy rather than what is actually in the best interest on the U.S. citizens. Though online casinos and internet gambling are now illegal in the U.S., the government has made no attempt to address internet betting on horse and dog racing.

The LA Times article goes on to criticize how the new restrictions are actually making online casino gambling more risky for Americans. Currently, though many online casinos have left the country, a handful of trustworthy casinos remain servicing U.S. citizens. But because there are so few, the online casino gambling industry is now the prime target of “fly-by-night” operations stealing player’s identities and disappearing with all of any funds they can get a hold of.

Below is an excerpt from the LA Times article:
"As the off-track-betting issue illustrates, Congress loses interest in protecting people from the lure of online gambling when thoroughbreds and trotters are involved. Similarly, interstate restrictions on games of chance evaporate for state lotteries - a form of gambling that the government enthusiastically promotes.

"Meanwhile, restrictions on other forms of wagering have led to perverse results. The most closely scrutinized and stable gambling businesses - casinos in Las Vegas and Atlantic City - stayed out of online wagering, conceding the field to unregulated and, occasionally, fly-by-night operators. A federal law passed last year to prohibit credit card companies from processing bets has spawned a host of workarounds, including online wallets and repurposed prepaid phone cards.

"A saner approach would be to allow online betting through licensed and regulated operators, as proposed by Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee," the editorial concludes. "Such operators could be required to meet age-verification standards, analyze betting patterns to detect and block compulsive gamblers and pay additional taxes, with a portion going to treat gambling addiction.

"This approach would do far more to protect the public than ineffective prohibitions that criminalize only the high-tech version of an otherwise legal act."