/ Editor / 28 December 2007 / 1 Comments

PLAYING online poker for money is banned in the US - land of the free.

But the natives are restless. A Letter To the New York Times goes thus:

Re "Ruling Lets Antigua Be Pirate to Punish U.S. in Trade Fight" (Business Day, Dec. 22): The "stern warnings" of the United States to Antigua are arrogant and hollow. They are based ultimately on two bad arguments: that Internet poker is "gambling," and that government should criminalize Internet "gambling."

Poker is an intellectually challenging game of skill, like chess. It is fun. It is educational. American citizens should be free to play it on the Internet and wherever they wish.
Antigua, supported by the World Trade Organization, has every right to punish the United States for the idiocy of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, passed by Congress in 2006.
John Andrews

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