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Many Websites Sued Over Gambling Ads... For Breaking No Actual Law
from the how-dare-they-run-ads dept
Is there a law in California against advertising gambling? It's not entirely clear, to be honest, because the News.com article never bothers to say what the actual law is, so it's tough to really analyze whether the lawsuits make sense without the context. However, the lawsuit does claim that Google, Yahoo and a variety of other sites violate the law by providing ads on various gambling related keywords. No matter what the legal issues, the case raises a number of questions. First, should a local state law apply to advertising on an international site? This issue isn't new, but it's going to keep coming up until some sort of solution is agreed upon concerning how to handle local laws on the internet. More importantly, you have to wonder why, if this is illegal in California, why the case is being brought by private citizens rather than, say, the state of California? If you go and look at the actual complaint (pdf file...) it turns out that this is a real stretch. The reason News.com doesn't point to the law, is because there isn't a law the bans gambling ads in California. The lawyers don't point to any law that actually make advertising of casinos illegal in California, but to laws that say gambling operations are illegal in California. From that, they extrapolate that if gambling is illegal, then advertising for casinos must be illegal. Of course, there are plenty of ads on both TV and highway billboards for casinos all around California, so it's unlikely they have even the slightest bit of a case.
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Like the big casino in Richmond?
Gambling is illegal in California... except the "Indian Reservations" in the middle of various cities throughout the state. Course, everyone knows the Indian casinos are unregulated scam outfits, so anyone who wants to "win" at a casino drives to Nevada.
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Re: Like the big casino in Richmond?
Thank you for your comment. You added SO much to this topic Ms. Dorpus.
Your knowledge of unregulated scam's should impress every reader of techdirt, and Mike should be happy beyond words for having such a valuable commentator as you Ms. Dorpus.
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Re: Like the big casino in Richmond?
It impressed you enough to write about it, thanks. ;-)
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Re: Like the big casino in Richmond?
dorpus , for once, please just shut the fuck up
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Re: Like the big casino in Richmond?
Everything continued and it looks like as soon as yet nothing will remain ..
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