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Criminalizing the Online Casinos

Comedy is often the best vehicle for criticism pretty much anywhere in the world, but particularly in the United States where freedom of speech means that even scathing commentaries and opinions are protected from persecution. Blogger Jacob Sullum recently published a piece on the Reason blog that highlighted some of the more ridiculous parts of the US online casino gambling situation – everything from arresting executives and then not providing an immediate trial to fining foreign online casinos huge sums of money for violating what amounts to hugely ambiguous internet gambling legislation.

Sullum’s piece is particularly positive for the online casino gambling industry – he criticizes all of the loopholes and obstacles that the US government has put in front of the internet gambling companies – and then fined them for when they violate. Before the 2006 UIGEA the US’s stance on online casino gambling was largely unclear and the internet gambling companies had no way of knowing that the US DoJ would later use the archaic Wire Act as a standing ground for huge fines.

Sullum’s piece really examines the current situation of Anurag Dikshit’s guilty plea on Wire Act charges. Dikshit pled guilty, and even released a statement that he believes that he did in fact violate US law by offering online casinos prior to the UIGEA. But even in his admission, it has to be said that the US’s stance on gambling was ambiguous at best. Sullum’s piece goes on to note that the US government is creating criminals from innocent men and also raising huge capital with the fines – why not just license, regulate, and tax the industry and collect the revenue that way without implicating a slew of gambling executives from all over the world – most of whom do not even reside in the US.