Mike Sexton to go on The Offensive For Online Poker This Coming Week

Poker News ^ | October 07, 2006 | John Caldwell

[baystaterebel]

It seems the poker world has been under siege for the past week or so. With the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Act a little over as week ago, and the media attention the passing of the bill has gotten, it is starting to feel like the poker world is like it used to be – a small gang of people fighting for the survival of this great game.

This coming week, the 'Ambassador of Poker', Mike Sexton is going to fight the good fight in a very public way. PokerNews.com has learned that Sexton is going to embark on a 'Media Blitz' campaign this coming week in New York City, and possibly Washington D.C. in an effort to call attention to the great injustice that has been done to people's right's everywhere with the passage of the Unlawful Internet Gaming Act.

[Phantom Lord]

All this bill does is make it illegal to accept money off a credit card for gambling sites run within the United States.

I don't believe that to be the case. I play at two online poker sites, neither of which are US based and both of them today have banned me from playing at real money tables.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

That's damn near impossible, because much of it is free. All this bill does is make it illegal to accept money off a credit card for gambling sites.

I wasn't aware of free pornography. If the gambling ban is supposed to protect the children, how would it do that? Children aren't using their own credit cards to indulge in online gambling, so that excuse is fake.

Again, the far greater danger is child pornography, where adults are buying images of children. That's the real danger to children - where *some* men are turning their online fantasies into reality by hunting children down. Men who view child pornography also view children differently. There's a danger in that alone. That's why you're seeing the proliferation of adult-to-child crime. That's why the NBC show is catching child predators. Why the hell is the government so blind that they can't see this? Where are the child advocates on THIS? Guess they're too busy banning snack foods in school cafeterias.