Friday, October 27, 2006

Britain Criticizes U.S. Online Gambling Ban

An AP newswire article by Jane Wardell, via The Washington Post, reports that:

Britain's culture secretary on Friday compared the U.S. crackdown on online gambling to the failed alcohol ban of the Prohibition as she prepared to host an international summit on Internet gambling next week.

Tessa Jowell warned that the U.S. ban on Internet gambling would make unregulated offshore sites the "modern equivalent of speakeasies," illegal bars that opened in 1920s America when alcohol was banned.

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