The current US situation on internet gambling very much reflects Australia a couple of years ago.
It seems based on political tradeoffs and a vision of lost revenue.
The net is ether in nature and a hard entity to “control”. Gambling revenue, whether by lottery. casinos etc., generates huge amounts of moolah to any government.
In Australia, the first target was porn. No Australian can view porn on the net and any porn sites found to be hosted on Aussie servers faced fines the size of a third world country annual budget.
Ummm…that was rediculous. It cost millions for a board of complaint to be set up and administered and I think there were three valid complaints in three years that were or were not prosecuted.
Meanwhile anyone here could type http://www.hotblondesonheat or whatever into a browser….
Then came gambling. The first draft detailed anyone promoting onlinegambling to any degree could face up to a 200k AUD fine per day. Residing in, or out of the country.
The only gambling allowed was, and is, TAB government run gambling.
We cannot look at porn nor gamble. Fortunately, there are loopholes.
Look for the holes and you will find the fish.