The anti-online-gambling law was passed and signed by President Bush last month, an action that caused traffic to online gambling sites to plummet by 56%.
These same sites had a major spike in September, just before the law went into effect.
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I'm not a gambler, online or offline, but it seems to me that a country founded upon the principles of liberty would allow its citizens to decide what they do with their money.
We're getting less free as time goes on, it seems. Nobody tell Thomas Jefferson, news like this could kill him.