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AGA Lends Support

The campaign to legalize online casino in the United States has just gotten quite a bit of a boost this week as the American Gaming Association announced its tentative support for a legalized and open US gambling industry. Up until this point, the AGA, which specifically backs the interests of the land gambling industry in the US, has sat on the fence in this internet gambling debate because some land gambling companies were resistant to the amount of competition that legalized online casinos would bring for the land venues. All of the major commercial casinos in the US are represented by the AGA in Washington through lobbying and educational efforts that the Association implements on behalf of all of the companies.

Over the past several years the proponents of a fair and open online casino market have been strongly asking the AGA for its support in moving Congress to repeal the controversial ban on offshore gaming and instead regulate and license sites in the market. Most of the major casinos active in the AGA either sat on the fence about the issue or straight out deny support for online gambling. More recently though, the AGA has complied and conducted massive research about the internet gambling industry and concluded that it would be in the best interests of the land gambling industry to support and back efforts to legitimize the US internet gambling industry.

The AGA has found that the online casino gambling sites can maintain safe standards in their game play and that regulations and licensing would mean a far safer environment for the gamblers themselves. The currently unregulated market is still rampant and yet there are no firm controls or protections in place. The AGA’s research concludes that while some of the federal government’s initial concerns regarding the internet gambling industry were valid, those have been resolved and it is time to repeal the UIGEA and make some new federal regulations for the industry.