This would have to be attached to the Wire Act. The wire act is a federal statute formed during the pre internet era. Currently there are no existing laws that regulate the internet because it is international.
To attach a bill to the wire act preventing webmasters from doing what they do would be quite a job. Courts would need an clear definition of the internet, something congress has failed to do.
Trying to keep pace with the internet with all its twists and turns I would find it very implossible Congress would be able to keep pace. If the internet was included in the wire act the act would have to be reviewed by congress weekly. A highly unlikely scenario.
As webmasters are we aiding and abetting as defined by the wire act? I say no because our medium of choice is the internet. Again the internet is not part of the wire act.
I am no lawyer but if an webmaster is takin to court under which law would they prosecute? The wire act? I don’t think so because the wire act does not cover the internet.
This game has been going on for a long time already, and all attempts have failed.
There are many other implications as well. But only two possible outcomes remaim. Either the U.S jumps on board or simply watches the world advance forward with online gambling.
No one in washinghton will be able to deflate this world trend of online gambling.
Throw this concept in with all the other BS, the WTO, freedom of speech ect… you are left with another failed attempt to regulate.
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