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Message: [QUOTE="Charade You Are, post: 1729711, member: 39511"] I changed the PPA message before I sent them. While I don't totally disagree with the wickedchopspoker message, I have other issues. While we might have to eat the fact that poker and casinos are inexoribly intertwined, my fight is to have online poker legalized. I could care less about casinos since they are so obviously behind this action. It's also ridiculous that the Commerce Department takes the following view which is so at odds with the current situation: [I]"While we work to ensure that the Internet remains an open marketplace for ideas and beliefs, it must also remain an open marketplace for business. In recent years, however, we have seen a significant up-tick in threats to the free flow of information on the Internet," Locke said. [/I] [I][B]At the Commerce Department, we feel strongly that the Internet must remain, as much as possible, a worldwide open market, one where vigorous competition is allowed to thrive and where trade barriers are negligible[/B][COLOR=#0000ff][B]."[/B] [/COLOR][/I][URL="http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/120543-locke-says-threats-to-internet-freedom-are-growing"][I]http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/120543-locke-says-threats-to-internet-freedom-are-growing[/I][/URL] It's not like these sites are operating out of someone's garage. They are licensed to operate by various gaming commissions around the world. In my world, the ideal solution would be to add online poker to the list of exempt activities from the UIGEA (which is a joke of a law). And without getting into the definition of gambling, IMO throwing money at a slot machine all day long is world's apart from playing poker. And I do think that online casinos will increase the number of gambling addicts much more so than online poker, since little effort or thought is involved. But I also don't think that's it the Governments job to protect adults from themselves. Although I wouldn't be totally against some kind of depositing limits. You can see this even in investing, for example, where, unless you have a net worth above x, you can't invest in certain instruments. [/QUOTE]

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