January 17, 2006 5:12 AM PST
U.K. to host global online-gambling summit
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Country seeks support for regulating fast-growing industry, blocking children from accessing the sites.
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- People are playing poker for real money anyway online, so let's make it legal.
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- Bush probably put them up to it so it can reverberate around the world.
- Wanting to regulate online gambling for the children and because of crime is a smokescreen. What the UK really wants is to rule an adults online gaming.
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