Demaestro - 8:51 pm on May 5, 2009 (gmt 0)

Although it was named "Unlawful Internet gambling Act", it aimed to make it hard for financial institutions to transfer money from US citizens to online gambling sites.

That was my major issue with it. Not only were they restricting freedoms, but worse they tried to leave it up to private (CC) companies to police it for them.

In regards to the social effects it has. It isn't up to a government of a free country to protect you from yourself in every possible way. Yes people ruin their families and their lives to gamble..... However how many lives are ruined and people are killed crossing the street every year? You can't make crossing the street illegal to protect people who can't do it responsibly.

It should be up to the government to educate and warn people about the dangers in society, it is up to individuals what to do with that information..... in a free country at least that is how it should be.

[edited by: Demaestro at 8:57 pm (utc) on May 5, 2009]