A Bit Hypocritical
There is a pretty big discrepancy in the US right now and that is as a result of
the Obama administration’s lack of action at tackling US internet censorship
laws. The US voting public views online casino gambling as one of the chief
technological concerns of right now and are urging the president to make good on
his campaign promises that touted that the new administration would free the
internet from needless censorship. Instead, while the Obama administration is
focusing on the economy and health care reform, the US Department of Justice is
continuing to prosecute online casino gambling related companies in the US –
practices that were hugely associated with the Bush administration.
So why is the president allowing the Department of Justice (DoJ) to continue
acting on the UIGEA and other legislation that censors the internet under the
auspice of protecting the US public from online casinos? It’s not his priority.
And that little fact is enough to make some supporters just a bit peeved. Obama
promised to make the internet censorship issue a priority in his administration
yet the Bush era politicians in the DoJ are still operating as if a Republican
were in office!
The conservative right is responsible for pushing the offshore online caisno
gambling ban through into law, and the DoJ is primarily the US department that
took the power of the UGIEA seriously and has raked in millions over the past
several years in fines to gambling companies that supposedly contravened the
UIGEA. Many in the online casino gambling industry though assumed that this
discrepancy in policy, the highly flawed UIGEA, would be resolved soon after the
president came into office – something that has clearly not happened. |