Britain to regulate online gaming

[hidden dragon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061031/ts_nm/britain_gaming_dc

[Busted_Flat]

The important news in this article is that the UK will not fight extradition of gaming execs.

"However, sports minister Richard Caborn told a news conference that the government would not protect UK online gaming executives from extradition requests if they took Internet bets from countries in which they were illegal."

It also states that the UK will probably not participate in a WTO complaint against the U.S.

"Caborn said Britain was sympathetic to a complaint made by Antigua to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the U.S. ban, but he stopped short of saying Britain would support the complaint that the U.S. was acting in a protectionist manner."

Basically the UK is planning to bend over and grab their ankles once again for King George.

[hidden dragon]

Agreed. Basically it is a bad news.

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Basically the UK is planning to bend over and grab their ankles once again for King George.

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What do you expect after we kicked their ass over an issue of Tea a while back.

We'd probably nuke them over an issue of online gambling.

They should fear the USA.

[Busted_Flat]

I don't think a nuke would be necessary, just a cruise missile strike on the Poker Stars headquarters.

GW at the news conference following the strike: "My fellow Americans. Today US Forces launched a strike against a terrorist training camp in the Isle of Man, which was disguised as an on-line poker facility. More than 100 terrorists disguised as customer service reps were killed in the attack. This is a major victory in the War on Terror."

[thekohser]

Sorry for the cross-post, but I thought this would be of interest:

The radio program from "BBC News Hour" features this story.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/programmes/newshour/

It will only be available on October 31st, and you go toward the bottom of the page, and click the "12:00 GMT" episode.

Note how Professor Peter Collins (Director of the Centre for the Study of Gambling at The University of Salford), although he is mostly in favor of regulation of compulsive betting, and says that "The American prohibition is very short-sighted"; he is also quoted as saying that regulation is difficult, but "we do it with child pornography, we do it with using the Internet to facilitate the funding of terrorism..."!

Is this what we've come to? Poker is the moral equivalent of destroying the innocence and psyche of a child, or blowing up shoppers at a produce stand?

The story begins at 45:38, out of the 60-minute program.

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It also states that the UK will probably not participate in a WTO complaint against the U.S.

"Caborn said Britain was sympathetic to a complaint made by Antigua to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over the U.S. ban, but he stopped short of saying Britain would support the complaint that the U.S. was acting in a protectionist manner."

[/ QUOTE ] The quote does not support your statement above it. It certainly implies that they won't definitely be joining Antigua in the WTO case but nothing else in terms of percentages or likelihoods is implied or can be inferred. It sounds very much like they are waiting on the WTO to rule in the pending US-Antigua complaince hearing in early 2007.