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by Mike Masnick

Wed, Mar 16th 2005 3:26am





Cracks Showing In US Crackdown On Online Gambling

from the take-that,-feds dept

While the US federal government has made it clear that it's a priority to stomp out all online gambling (leading them to do such things as trying to ban anyone from even advertising an online casino), it looks like they may be losing ground -- even to state governments. Three state governments, in North Dakota, Illinois and Georgia are looking to pass laws that will legalize certain forms of online gambling within those states. Meanwhile, the UK, where online gambling is big business, is set to make it legal for UK-based online casinos to accept wagers for US citizens -- even if those gamblers are breaking the law back home. In other words, it looks like the US's attempt to legislate online gambling out of existence is facing more than a few problems right now.

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    Tim, Mar 16th, 2005 @ 3:39am

    I smell yet another episode in the Blair/Bush soap-opera saga coming up...

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    online gambling

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    clouser, Mar 16th, 2005 @ 4:28am

    can't stop it; the internet will route around all forms of censorship

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    Re: online gambling

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    Daranthalis, Mar 16th, 2005 @ 5:17am

    I find this amusing in a lot of ways. The US (mostly in the form of corporate interest) has tried, successfully in some ways, to apply US laws to the world's use of the internet. It's interesting to see this attitude returned from both within and without the US.

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    legislating morality - again?

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    dragonman, Mar 16th, 2005 @ 7:17am

    Look at what happened last time the Feds tried to legislate morality. It resulted in Prohibition and we all know how well that worked out.

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