Online Casino Transfer: News - Netroots Hosts PPA's Bloch

08/15/2010		Online Casino Style: News Netroots Hosts PPA's Bloch
Home History Games News Dictionary		The Poker Players Alliance has had quite the busy week this week with their chairman D’Amato speaking out for the American people’s desire for internet gambling, and now professional poker player Andy Bloch piping up to put in his two cents on the issue of legalizing online poker, utilizing his Harvard Law education to better prepare a case for the proponents of online gambling. His venue was the Netroots Nation 2010 internet seminar that took place in Las Vegas, representing the PPA, one of the largest pro-online gambling groups active in the United States. The heart of Bloch’s speech directly spoke to the discriminatory nature of the current law, mainly the implications of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prohibits online gambling of any kind, including skill based games such as poker. The PPA was one of the leading sponsors for the Netroots seminar, backed by the support of more than a million US members. Netroots is a seminar that addresses the most current topics related to the internet world, with a huge emphasis placed on freedoms and public policy associated with the web. The fact that gambling is legal in one form or another in 48 states out of 50 is a clear indicator of the holes in legislative policy; how can it be that states approve of betting while a federal law continues to impede Americans ability to gambling online? With fiscal concerns continuing to plague multiple regions, Bloch outlined the ill logic of the law that keeps them from accessing the taxes associated with legalizing internet gambling and online poker. “We need to make sure that both politicians and activists are aware of the ridiculous attempts to prohibit online poker,” said Bloch. “They are forgoing billions in tax revenue when our budgets are most in need, rejecting the opportunity to properly regulate online poker, and ignoring their responsibility to protect children and other vulnerable members of our society.”

08/15/2010

Online Casino Style: News
Netroots Hosts PPA's Bloch

The Poker Players Alliance has had quite the busy week this week with their chairman D’Amato speaking out for the American people’s desire for internet gambling, and now professional poker player Andy Bloch piping up to put in his two cents on the issue of legalizing online poker, utilizing his Harvard Law education to better prepare a case for the proponents of online gambling. His venue was the Netroots Nation 2010 internet seminar that took place in Las Vegas, representing the PPA, one of the largest pro-online gambling groups active in the United States.

The heart of Bloch’s speech directly spoke to the discriminatory nature of the current law, mainly the implications of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, which prohibits online gambling of any kind, including skill based games such as poker. The PPA was one of the leading sponsors for the Netroots seminar, backed by the support of more than a million US members. Netroots is a seminar that addresses the most current topics related to the internet world, with a huge emphasis placed on freedoms and public policy associated with the web.

The fact that gambling is legal in one form or another in 48 states out of 50 is a clear indicator of the holes in legislative policy; how can it be that states approve of betting while a federal law continues to impede Americans ability to gambling online? With fiscal concerns continuing to plague multiple regions, Bloch outlined the ill logic of the law that keeps them from accessing the taxes associated with legalizing internet gambling and online poker.

“We need to make sure that both politicians and activists are aware of the ridiculous attempts to prohibit online poker,” said Bloch. “They are forgoing billions in tax revenue when our budgets are most in need, rejecting the opportunity to properly regulate online poker, and ignoring their responsibility to protect children and other vulnerable members of our society.”