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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is trying use a bill authorizing U.S. military operations, including in Iraq and Afghanistan, to prohibit people from using credit cards to settle Internet gambling debts.

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If this is the extent of what is planned, we're in pretty good shape.

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No, that's what the media is regurgitating. I am sure it is the part of the bill that refers to all financial transactions etc. that he plans on trying to push through.

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I think this is probably correct. The average layperson probably assumes that you'd fund a poker account with a credit card and doesn't know about things like NETELLER, so that's how the issue is likely to be framed in an AP wire story.

I'm not saying that we couldn't wind up with a severly watered down piece of legislation, and at some point if the langague is watered down enough, that might be better than no legislation passing at all. But I don't think that particular sentence in the AP article tells us anything terribly substantive.