Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative CNBC Interview - 6/8/07

On June 8, 2007, Melissa Harris from CNBC's On Your Money featured Jeffrey Sandman, spokesperson for the Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative, and John Kindt, University of IL Business and Legal Policy professor, debating what role Congress has in regulating Internet gambling.

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News & Politics

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• Safe
• and
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• Internet
• Gambling
• Initiative
• Barney
• Frank
• regulating
• online
• betting
• John
• Kindt
• Jim
• McDermott

[qbert1345]

how difficult and CHEAP to start a check like a credit card, issue a magnet strip card with small biometric fingerprint reader (extremely cheap, does not collect actual fingerprint database but a unique combination of "dots" and works extremely well - eg. built into all my lenovo's) a little upgrade from the cards the casino's use now. subscriber based, up the hardware security against most (D)DOS and time it for a physical finger scan to keep bots down? my 12yr old son can code it.

[Radu1137]

how is this even a debate?????? people MUST be free to do what they please as long as they don't harm others!

[aweinsto]

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[imluvinyourmum]

How can anyone watch this and think net gambling is the problem? If he feels so sorry for addicted gamblers why not ban it all together?

Im sure the statistics would point towards casino slot players being the biggest and most effected 'detramental' gamblers around. ( i see addicted gamblers and 'self detramental gamblers' as seperate things). I see them all the time, they use the casino as a hang out rather than a gambling venue, very dangerous when playing against the odds constantly

[TheStranglehold]

Of course the brick and mortar casinos want regulations and taxes. They can absorb the costs. That's the game ALL large businesses play, regulations and taxes protect them from competition.

John Kindt is just a moralfag with "studies" and "feelings" instead of a holy book.

[1stSafeHosting]

Blablabla... Internet Gambling is bad.

[204union]

Melissa Francis is hosting an hour on illegal gambling on wednesday the 16th 9p on cnbc - there's a clip on youtube

[jjangbs]

Internet gambling is a move towards making everywhere where there is a computer a casino.

When something becomes illegal, the gov has to try to make those illegal stuff disappear.

However, they are trying to legalize it to help the law-breaking criminals by saying that they can protect those criminals from unsafe crime-making environment.

It's very entertaining to see how monkeys run around and claim that they can run a country by messing things up and talking fancy.

[Gypscrew]

so pretty much it comes down to this. Get your ass off the couch or computer chair and go to a real casino if you like gambling. The shit people play online is rigged up worse then the casinos that are in actual buildings.

roulette, explain how the ball actually lands on black for 17 times straight, the next time it lands on red for 8 times straight, and that is very common for landing on colors so many times.

Yet when you go to a real casino and bet on black or red, it's not common.

[Gypscrew]

actually no it wouldn't. If parents could gamble in the living room, they may let their 15 year old do it while they take a nap or whatever. You don't know, however if this were legal it would be good for tax purposes for the USA to make money.

It's really a double edged sword. It's something that really has to be thought about carefully. Personally I wouldn't care as I can drive 60 miles to a casino anyway and it gets me out of the house.