Further Banning of the Online Casinos
The United States government and the individual state governments just can’t
seem to get enough of the legislative blocks and bans on online casino gambling
in the country. The US government passed the highly controversial UIGEA roughly
two years ago and has faced much criticism and foreign legal action as a result
of the ban – now though the individual states are getting in on the action and
plan to block gambling at the online casinos at a state level in addition to the
federal legislation. The current governor of Kentucky, Steve Beshear, announced
a new plan would put the onus of the ban on the individual online gambling
sites.
The plan is fairly simple, the state of Kentucky supplies a list of the illegal
online casino gambling sites that should be blocked – any gambling site that
continues to accept Kentucky gamblers could then lose their domain name. This
newest development is actually pretty surprising for the state – Kentucky has
one of the most developed horse racing and betting systems in the state.
Kentucky bettors are able to head to the online betting sites for the purposes
of betting on the state’s many horse races, but going to an internet caisno is
forbidden.
This hypocritical legislation is actually the backbone of the current US online
casino gambling policy, the country has some work to do on internet gambling
legislation as it pertains to foreign internet gambling sites and these new
developments in the Kentucky government indicate that the government has a long
way to go. |