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From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 05:08:53 -0400
http://www.nytimes.com/library/cyber/week/ WASHINGTON Congress took another step Thursday toward regulating the Internet with committee approval of a bill that would ban all domestic gambling on the network. The bill is opposed by a long list of groups, from Internet service providers to the American Civil Liberties Union. But the only debate in the Senate Judiciary Committee came on a clause that was intended to open the door for online horse race wagering in the future. Senator Dianne Feinstein, Democrat of California, cast the sole vote of dissension after an amendment that would have allowed specific state exemptions was removed. "I'm obviously concerned about the horse racing industry that's the reason the amendment is this way," Feinstein said in opposing the removal of the language prohibiting Internet gambling "unless state law expressly permits that activity." ************************************************** "Photons have neither morals nor visas" -- Dave Farber 1994 **************************************************
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