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Rep. Shelley Berkley (D, NV) introduces HR 2140, the Internet Gambling Study Act, to authorize the National Academy of Sciences to conduct a 12 month study of online gambling, the impact of the 2006 ban, other countries' licensing and regulation and recent rulings by the WTO on it. 3 May 2007.
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Rep. Barney Frank introduces HR 2046 the "Internet Gambling Regulation and Enforcement Act of 2007" to establish a federal regulatory framework under which Internet gambling operators could obtain licenses to accept U.S. wagers if there were protections against underage gambling, compulsive gambling, money laundering and fraud and if they enforce state, tribal and sports league laws and restrictions. 26 April 2007.
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WTO's Appelate Body reverses key parts of previous WTO decision that held that U.S. Internet gambling laws violated U.S. treaty obligations. 7 April 2007
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Sen. John McCain introduces the Securing Adolescents from Exploitation-Online Act, which requires ISPs and perhaps Web-based email systems to alert the government of any pornographic images of real or "cartoon" minors and provide an exhaustive report about the user and his IP address. This revised approach eliminated commercial Web-sites and personal blogs from inclusion from his prior proposal. 7 February 2007.
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ICANN takes a 2nd look at .xxx domain registrations. ICANN coordinates global use of unique URLs. The proposal adds efforts to protect children, ensure registrants label content clearly, prohibit spam, be "name" culturally sensitive and donate money to child safety organizations. 5 January 2007
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Sen. John McCain (R-AR) introduces the "Stop the Online Exploitation of Our Children Act" at the end of the 109th Congress. Millions of commercial Web-sites and personal blogs will be subject to reporting illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay huge fines. 6 December 2006.
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The Muck Center releases psiphon -- a censorship circumvention solution that turns regular home computers into encrypted servers to by-pass state-directed filtering. University of Toronto. 1 December 2006.
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U.S. District Court for Massachusetts confims a long-standing U.S. precedent that child pornographic convictions must rely on real, not virtual, images of children. Judge Nancy Gertner. 22 November 2006
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NETeller closes its U.S. Internet gambling services after two of its founders are arrested earlier in the week in the U.S., dealing a severe blow to online gambling. 18 January 2007
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WTO Panel holds that U.S. gambling laws violate its treaty obligations and violate General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). 11 November 2006.
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Bush signs Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006, giving Fed 270 days to design plan to block transfers of funds to offshore gambling sites. 13 October 2006.
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London Stock Exchange-listed PartyGaming Plc announces suspension of all money gaming activities in U.S. with signing of the act. 2 October 2006.
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Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) intends to introduce a bill in the 110th Congress mandating ISPs to keep records of their users activities for up to two years. September 2006.
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Washington State's anti-Internet gambling law takes effect ushering in draconian penalties for home gamblers. Sen. Margarita Prentice's bill makes such players felons. 7 June 2006.