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Gambling: Internet Gambling
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Until such risks become evident, the government should continue to allow the Internet gambling industry to be self-regulating. Self-regulation exists not only at the business level, but ... home users must engage in self-regulation of their behavior on-line. The responsibility to ensure that children do not access on-line gambling sites belongs with the parents, not the government. The government cannot be parents to children. [291] Parents should have the responsibility of monitoring what their children access on the Internet. Even if they do not have the time or ability to monitor all on-line activities at all times of the day, there are inexpensive software programs such as Cyber Sitter [292] or Net Nanny [293] which allow parents to prevent their children from accessing certain sites.
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[One] deadly ingredient of sports gambling is accessibility (TV, radio, Internet, workplace). Many Americans will be glued to the TV and searching the Internet during the month of March and into April (2004). Numerous bets will be placed, deals with bookies made and millions of dollars spent with little more than a phone call or the click of the mouse.
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Society's attitude toward gambling is ambiguous. For example, some view gambling on the Internet in the form of blackjack, slots, or roulette as disdainful, yet they embrace, and... encourage,other activities such as Internet stock and futures trading [306] (which is actually a legalized form of gambling that can carry the same amount of risk for unknowing participants). Some states enhance this ambiguity by prohibiting most forms of gambling, yet they promote it by operating state-run lotteries. Even some social organizations such as churches, which regard gambling as a vice, promote the activity by running their own bingo programs. Given this ambiguity, it is arguably hypocritical for the state or federal governments to prohibit Internet gambling, yet condone other forms of the activity which are no less risky.
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What’s more, they say, those sites (internet gambling) can and do corrupt children and create more addicted gamblers. Kids can get onto some of the overseas sites, as Alex Hartman, the 16-year-old son of 60 Minutes Producer Rome Hartman, demonstrated. Using his dad’s credit card, he gained access to a gaming Web site and quickly lost $100 playing roulette.
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LANSING, Mich., Oct 26, 2004 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- One of the largest financial backers of Proposal 1 profited off of Internet gambling as late as 2003, according to a Detroit Free Press article at the time. The backer, MGM- Mirage, is one of the entities pumping millions of dollars into false and misleading television advertisements accusing opponents of the ballot measure of wanting to bring Internet gambling to Michigan.
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Obviously the [U.S.] government has opened up a new front when it comes to pursuing foreign companies and citizens for online gambling violations. I think it’s unprecedented for the U.S. to pursue a foreign individual like Mr. Carruthers for an online gambling violation and so that certainly sent out shockwaves through the industry given this new kind of tact that the Justice Department is taking with regards to foreigners, but as far as opening up a wider front and concluding that the government is now willing to take on the internet gambling industry as a whole, I don’t think that’s what this case means.
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