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Moral High Ground for Online Casinos

The international community has spoken out on many levels in requests that the US government repeal the controversial UIGEA and instead open up the US market to a fully legalized, licensed, and regulated online casino gambling industry. The US’ policy on internet gambling has cropped up in the World Trade Organization for years now and the European Union has even sent delegates to the United States to address some very big issues that the EU has with the US’ current policies regarding foreign online casinos. All of these issues are still actually hanging in the balance as the US government and the US Trade Representatives in particular take the moral high ground and claim that the federal policy is legal and valid because it protects the morality of US citizens.

The reasons that this piece of legislation was initially implemented stem from a very right-wing conservative agenda that passed through into law in a midnight session of Congress – the vast majority of the politicians were not even aware of the specifics of the new legislation was about to pass when they approved it. In the intervening three years now the government has claimed that the UIGEA exists as a way to protect US gamblers from the ills and addictive nature of the online casinos.

The WTO has not accepted this argument however because of the carve-outs that are in place for certain types of internet gambling that are permissible according to the UIGEA. These industries with carve-outs now have exclusive access to the US market without any foreign competition from offshore online casinos. That type of protectionist policy is precisely why the rest of the world isn’t buying the “morality card” that the US is playing and is instead demanding that the protectionist gambling policies stop.