The Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative promotes an individual's freedom to
gamble online in the interest of creating
safeguards to protect consumers and ensure
financial transaction
A financial transaction is an agreement, or communication, between a buyer and seller to exchange goods, services, or assets for payment. Any transaction involves a change in the status of the finances of two or more businesses or individuals. A ...
s are legal and safe.
Background
The initiative was founded by a coalition of members who support efforts to legalize
internet gambling, which would allow for it to be properly regulated. Such bills have been proposed in the House of Representatives by Rep.
Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep.
Jim McDermott (D-WA). Since it was created in 2007, more than 1,200 people have registered their support for the initiative to
legalize
Legalization is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal.
Legalization is a process often applied to what are regarded, by those working towards legalization, as victimless crimes, of which one ...
and regulate online gambling.
In 2013, representative Joe Barton introduced the Poker Freedom Act which prohibited the use of credit cards for internet poker. Safe and Secure Internet Gambling Initiative plead the representative to reconsider the ban on credit cards deposits for consumer protection.
References
External links
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Gambling in the United States
Online gambling