Gambling On the Internet- First Amendment Right or Economy-Drainer?
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published 30/08/2007
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SummaryInternet gambling has been on a huge rise since the year 2000. Poker Stars and Party Poker, the biggest of the online poker rooms, are two of the highest earning companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. Many eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-something geniuses have made seven digit earnings on these websites, creating a new breed of millionaire professional gamblers who, ironically, are still too young to step foot in a brick- and- mortar casino in the United States.
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- Its constant availability and fast-paced action is a breeding ground for addiction
- Many college students have turned to online poker as a source of income
- Another reason many oppose internet gambling is regulation
- All of this seems to suggest the same thing: while many see internet gambling as a breeding ground of addiction and financial peril for teenagers accustomed to a fast paced lifestyle, there seems to be very little in the way of actually regulating offenders
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