The Witch-Hunt Against Online Gambling: Why the United States Government Hasn’t Regulated Internet Gaming and Why States’ Rights Are Being Trampled.
Citation
Wallace, Joshua. 2016. The Witch-Hunt Against Online Gambling: Why the United States Government Hasn’t Regulated Internet Gaming and Why States’ Rights Are Being Trampled.. Master's thesis, Harvard Extension School.Abstract
This study investigates why the United States Government and other parties have systematically targeted online gambling/poker since its inception. Gambling is and always has been a divisive issue, but for the most part the US Government has always sided with the gambling prohibition movement. Current political officials are continuing this trend, even though their allegiances and small-government belief should put them on the other side of the aisle. Politicians are easily swayed on particular issues based on what they think can be given to them in terms of campaign support through endorsements or money. Within this thesis, I expose this hypocrisy among some of the most widely known American politicians, as they have without question sold their beliefs to big business and wealthy moguls. Behind the scenes, however, there may be an even more sinister group of people who are pushing prohibition for other motives, but mainly due to avarice. Within this text you will see how the US has strong-armed smaller, weaker nations, made the World Trade Organization look incompetent and incapable of enforcing decisions, and paid employees of casinos to track spending habits of Chinese politicians so they can blackmail them. All of this is of course done in the name of morality, public safety, and anti-corruption. However, public safety cannot be argued if politicians decry online gambling but take campaign contributions from casino owners; corruption and money laundering can not be the danger posed to Americans if the government makes exceptions for gambling on horse racing and fantasy sports over the Internet, and morality certainly has to place in an American politicians reasoning if they are willing to decimate a small, island nation’s workforce through illegal sanctions based on moral grounds. Much of this thesis presents absolute facts. Some of it speculates and infers. I hope the reader can make up his or her own mind and come to his or her own conclusion.Terms of Use
This article is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of-use#LAACitable link to this page
http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33797255
Collections
- DCE Theses and Dissertations [1189]
Contact administrator regarding this item (to report mistakes or request changes)