Cynthia777 said:My thoughts exactly, and I remember Carruthers saying something to the effect that if it were to be regulated in the U.S., even if taxed, he would be right on a plane back to the U.S. to set up shop, instead of being in Costa Rica.
Carruthers has repeatedly appealed to the US authorities to at least consider licensing, regulating and taxing the industry in general and his group in particular, and he has been very active in promoting this concept. Other major groups have done the same for years, notably Nigel Payne of Sportingbet. Alas, this is not what Goodlatte et al want to hear it appears.
I think one of the most common sense observations to be made in that hearing was by Rep. John Conyers, who made what seems to me the obvious suggestion that before prohibiting something one should have an independent and thorough investigation.
Conyers tried to bring this about two years ago with his proposal for a Congressional committee, but unfortunately it was not successful. Contrast that with the recent approach to online gambling legalisation by the South African government, which had a multi-disciplined investigative committee engaged for eighteen months in exhaustively studying the international online gambling industry before recommending that it be legalised.
Interesting that you mention Trident in the context of responsible gaming, Cynthia - that group goes a step further and actually employs a problem gaming counsellor who was once a problem gambler himself. The management's experience goes right back to the early days of online casino gambling btw.
Unfortunately, the industry is ill served by some of the groups we see portrayed in the Rogue section at Casinomeister, or whose activities feature in "Online Casino Complaints" here and elsewhere all too frequently.
These are the nickel-and-diming, player-screwing bottom feeders that players need to be warned about to avoid bad experiences, and that is where player communication through well established and integrity-driven sites like this plays such an important role.
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