What’s the Difference?

May 14, 2008

An interesting topic has come up as of late, and that is the comparison of online gambling to online trading. Some want to know why one is legal and one is not – considering the fact that online trading really is nothing more than online gambling. Many say that if you are making online gambling illegal, then online trading should be as well.

In fact, AUADMK General Secretary J Jayalalithaa called for an immediate ban on online trading as she says it is nothing more than online gambling. She blames online futures trading and the “hoarding of essential commodities” as the main reasons why inflation is as bad as it is.

She says that the trading is nothing more than online gambling, and that there are no risks for the trader. She said that they have to make it illegal immediately, and put a ban on hoarding as well. She says that the government is being used to support this form of online gambling, and it must be stopped.

Calling it “blind adherence to globalization agenda,” she states that the international agreements are depriving Indian farmers of subsidies as well. She claims that they have caused “agriculture to become progressively unviable” and that they are destroying the farmers and their way of life. They are even forcing many to think that suicide is the only way out – and it must be stopped.

She says that the online gambling in the form of trading must be stopped, as must the subsidies be restored.
 

 

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