It seems the U.S. government is still trying to ban online gambling for its citizens. Earlier this week, the U.S. House Financial Services Committee passed a bill that makes credit card deposits into online casino gambling accounts illegal.

The bill, which is primarily designed to provide homeland security and protect American soldiers against financial fraud, is taking a step to ending online gambling by making it impossible for U.S. credit card transactions to go through an online casino depository.

Many casino advocates say the bill only goes against itself. When American online casino gamblers can no longer use their credit cards in casinos, they will seek alternative deposit methods which the U.S. government has no way of stopping. The downfall is that many of these methods are less secure than highly encrypted credit card transactions. Thus the bills provision on protecting against financial fraud is undermined.

Is this a feeble attempt by the U.S. to protect itself from foreign invaders, or, is it the extremist outlook of a minority in Congress, desperately trying to push their morality on its citizens and the rest of the world? Well, in an industry as big as online casino gambling, which is steadily bringing in more revenue - in the billions - year by year, it may indeed by a winless battle similar to that of the Prohibition days in America.