Some Online Betting is OK?

It would seem that the Wire Act only serves to protect Americans from the online casino industry, not the online gambling industry. The story that we have all been getting all this time is that the government has stepped in to protect us from ourselves as we are not responsible enough to decide what to do with our money. We can gamble but not at an online casino.

So where can we? At the tracks. It was decided that the horse tracks, and simulcast betting was allowed (because somehow that isn’t betting?) and online casinos were not allowed. Now with the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority looking to allow mobile gambling on horses, one has to ask themselves how this is even possibly legal.

The NJSEA wants to allow mobile phone betting on horses, and says that wagers will be accepted through internet enabled phones as early as next year. But wasn’t the Wire Act of 1961 specifically passed to prohibit bookies from taking bets over the phone? So how is this legal in any sense of the word? The Department of Justice has already gone on record saying that online casino gambling that involves horse racing is illegal – yet allows it to happen all the time.

We can only assume that they will turn a blind eye to the NJSEA as they have done with Churchill Downs – who has been running an online casino for taking online bets for some time now. US residents are not the only ones angered by this turn of events, international countries are asking the same thing – why is this legal and online casinos are not?