BETTING ON SPORTS IS STILL LEGAL, NO MATTER WHAT THE CONGRESS PASSES

Congress, as usual, fucks up---and I am so glad you can't believe it. You can still gamble on line and there ain't nothing nobody can do about it. How? First, the only betting that the "law" stops is sports betting via credit card, you can still use CCs to bet on casino games. Second, who ever said you have to use a credit card to place a bet? Anyalists point out that

...they'll employ other e-wallet payment services based outside the U.S., such as NetTeller and FirePay. Frank Catania, former director of gaming enforcement in New Jersey and president of Catania Consulting Group, calls the law "a sham" that won't stop online betting in the U.S. "There are so many alternate means of payment that it is not going to stop what is happening here," says Catania. "We are going to be spending a lot of money for enforcement, and it is going to be worthless.

Some foreign governments have already accused the U.S. of having protectionist motivations, rather than prohibitionist ones. In August, 2005, representatives from Antigua and Barbuda brought a case against the U.S. to the World Trade Organization, complaining that efforts by the U.S. to stamp out online gambling unfairly keep foreign companies from competing with U.S. gambling companies. They cited exceptions for horseracing and lotteries as evidence that the U.S. was not antigambling per se, but against foreign governments taking betting dollars through online sites. The WTO initially ruled against the U.S. However, in April, 2006, the U.S. said it had addressed the concerns, prompting Antigua and Barbuda to appeal to the World Trade Organization about the U.S.'s lack of appropriate redress.

They should go back to molesting pages and secretaries.