Casino online and its long way
Different countries have absolutely different attitude towards gambling online. Some of them consider this sphere of entertainment to have extremely negative impact on the population while others admit the right of every citizen to spend his spare time the way he likes unless it breaks existing law system so casino is the thing they can accept. USA players live in the state where the Government shares the first opinion.
The situation became absolutely clear on the 1-st of June this year. While other countries which do their best for the development of online gambling industry vote for Argentine as a new member to accept US players get more restrictions.
How can they stay calm when Argentine goes on and license its first casino online and British territories, Man and Gibraltar Islands start to provide their online gambling companies with license to function legally? Online casino for US citizens has been some kind of a forbidden fruit which is always on the tree but they can’t take it.
The history of the process which can be called the Government against Casino for USA players starts in 2001 and since then local authorities and trials have been creating every condition so that online casino for US players would stop its functioning. The United States of America tend to put an end to gambling online and Great Britain makes every effort to make it legal and profitable.
The USA projects and adopts two laws against casinos online and makes accepting US players really complicated. One of the laws prohibits organizing such web-sites on the territory of the USA; the other forbids American operators such as credit cards companies accepting USA players’ payments connected with gambling operations.
In 2007 American payments systems such as E-gold refused to serve online gambling operations. Lobbies against Casino Bellini Online fulfilled their intentions and through American Congress forced Yahoo and Google to ban advertisements of virtual casinos. One of these companies – Casino City – even started a trial process against the Government of America considering the law to be breaking free speech but in vain.
Surprisingly enough Nevada made a proposition to accept us, players online, inside the state, allowing its citizens to play for money. However the Government had a negative reaction to this proposal.
June, 1, 2010 is the day when Barrack Obama signed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act. But it’s not the end to gambling online: there are sites accepting us, players from the land of Las Vegas. To be continued…
