There's a lotta noise out there about who's onside and who's offside on the whole online gambling debate. To put a little weight behind the "Stop Kyl" camp, the Internet Consumers Choice Coalition runs a website where you can make your voice heard.

The ICCC campaign, called Log On 4 Choice, allows U.S. citizens to contact their Member of Congress via the World Wide Web and urge them to preserve the freedom of the Internet, and your rights to gamble online. Read their page, pick a letter, click a button and you've got yourself a ready-made email letter that the site will target to your Rep. Couldn't be much simpler than that.

Of course, being that sort of fellow, I wanted to know who the ICCC was and what they'd done in the past. I discovered that they are a coalition of several groups including some heavyweights in the civil liberties movement. Here's the list of Coalition members:

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Americans for Tax Reform
• Association of Concerned Taxpayers
• Citizens for a Sound Economy
• Competitive Enterprise Institute
• First Amendment Coalition for Expression
• Interactive Services Association
• Small Business Survival Committee
• United States Internet Council

I emailed the ICCC for more info but they didn't get back to me. Can't say I'm too surprised because their main guy, David Safavian, executive director of the ICCC and a consultant to Inland Entertainment Corp, is a pretty busy boy. Follow these links for a few examples of what he and the ICCC have been doing to protect your online gambling rights:

• CNN: Justice Calls Online Gambling Bill Unenforceable
• American Civil Liberties Union - Hosting a letter from the ICCC to Senator Orrin G. Hatch
• Canadian Newswire: Department of Justice Questions Proposed Internet Gambling Legislation