You can ban it, but that doesn’t mean you will stop it.
That’s the what James J. Murren, the CEO of MGM Resorts International, said Friday when discussing a potential federal ban on online gambling in the United States.
Murren appears to be among those who are of the mindset that gamblers will still find ways to gamble online illegally regardless of what Congress does.
As mGamingWatch reported last week, legislation has been introduced in Congress that, if passed, would effectively kill the online gambling market.
“What I believe is in the best interest of Americans is to regulate, to get rid of the bad actors, to force them out of business,” Murren observed at the Society of American Business Editors and Writers’ spring conference.
According to Cronkite News Online, Murren asserted his view that regulating Internet gambling is a “states’-rights issue.”
Noting that his company has 62,000 employees, he said regulating rather than banning Internet gambling would mean that companies with a lot to lose if they act unethically would be in the market.
“Those are the kind of operators that should be the controls of this type of technology and this kind of gaming,” Murren is quoted in the same report.
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