Wired News Visitors Comment on the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA)

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Wired.com News visitors comment angrily on the US House ban on internet gambling. The new Act passed on Oct. 13th, 2006 and signed later by George Bush has brought about some pretty angry comments from US citizens.

We are giving a few samples here:

Commenter 1:
"What'd you expect? It's our own fault for voting these neo-cons into office. No matter, Democrat or Republican, they all have the same agenda: stay in power and control our lives. This reminds me of China's policy of blocking certain web sites. Pretty soon any web site that is not based in the U.S. and is bad mouthing the U.S. Government, will be blocked (if they aren't already)." Submitted by buddyedgewood on 07/12/06 2:57 EDT

Commenter 2:
"It doesn't get much clearer than this if you're looking for a reason to slap the hypocrite label on our goverment. Someone please tell me how horse racing or state run lotteries are okay but playing poker isn't?

Oh yeah, Kentucky must have had some great powerful lobbyists pushing the Derby and here in PA we pass the lottery off by saying "proceeds benefit senior citizens."

I say, let people to their own devices. If they want to run rampant with gambling then so be it. No one tells a drunk he can't be a drunk; no one tells a warmonger he can't be a warmonger.

End sarcasm tag." Submitted by clicknathan on 07/12/06 1:55 EDT


Commenter 3:
"John Kindt - jkindt@business.uiuc.edu (217) 333-6018" Submitted by bronskrat on 07/12/06 4:03 EDT

Apparently, John Kindt at the University of Illinois had nothing to say and left his email - twice; we were wondering if he was trying to tell everyone to contact him on the issue.