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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -14/+28I hope you Net Neutrality people take a hard, honest look at this. This is what happens when the government decides it is within their power to regulate something.
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17So much for the First Ammendment.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Government is AWESOME. When the boot is on your neck, you won't care if it's the right boot, or the left boot. Democrat, Republican, it's all the same in the end. When no area is taboo to government interference, it will interfere everywhere.
- Dissipate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13I guess it's OK to gamble and to talk about gambling as long as the government is running the show.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Such a joke. The only reason all of this stuff is illegal is because the government can't make money off of it.
- retral, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17You mean you anti-net neutrality people?
- tormented, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16There are few Australian bloodlines back to the convict days. Australians now are generally people that have moved here or who's parents have moved here like mine for example.
And you detracted strongly from my point of YOU VOTED THESE PEOPLE INTO POWER. Don't cry when you make the wrong decisions or neglect the opportunity to have an input into your countries leaders. - andreo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10More like someone somewhere thought that on-line gambling was bad. I'm sure that some politician threw in "think of the children" in the speech when he or she was proposing this law.
- kyhwana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Hello? First amendment anyone?
- cmw72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Man this crap pisses me off. It's like China 2.0
- redneckblues, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Now with AJAX censorship action!
- lefthome, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Read up on prohibition while you're at it... this is the same old crap, and letting the telcos et al have their way with the internet is no different. Don't try to make this look like big government imposing its will. It's business as usual. The only reason laws pass nowadays is to protect the interest of corporations. Follow the money.
This would only lead to some people making more money, and those who established and built internet gambling making less. - inkhead, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11***** WASHINGTON, ***** YOU POLITICIANS WHO PUT YOUR RIGHT WINGED RED AGENDA OVER THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE.
YOU WORK FOR US BITCHES. DON'T YOU POLITICIANS EVER ***** FORGET THAT> - RunnyBabbit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Link to the actual article:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003062386_danny15.html - SilentPurity, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9AGREED. ***** ALL THEM WASHINGTON *****.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+18"No surprise since Australians are the descendants of convicts..."
Americans fell from the same tree. Those of you that aren't descended from slaves or Mexico anyway. - swankboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I moved to Washington from Wisconsin just over a year and a half ago. Not surprisingly both state governments' gambling laws are dictated by the B&M casino lobby. In SE Wisconsin especially, the Potawatomi tribe (only Indian casinos are legal there) are well into the pockets of politicians especially the governor of the state, Doyle.
Look to Wisconsin to be the next state to adopt a similar, if not identical law to Washington's. Idiotic policy spreads like wildfire once they realize the public is unaware of it or simply not paying attention. I don't think most people in Washington state even realize what's happened.
This certainly isn't the last of it. - screwedcork, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10@tormented, I feel like pointing out that this is a state law and has nothing to do with G-Dub
- boredzo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6*puts black tape over the first two words of this story's headline*
- buddhistMonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6The government could be making billions in tax revenue off of online gambling, if only they hadn't passed idiotic laws that drove all the internet sites offshore. Poker is red hot right now, but instead of embracing poker's surge in popularity, like Europe and Australia are doing, our government wants to abolish a form of entertainment they consider immoral.
Like prohibition at the turn of the last century, all that this legislation is going to accomplish is to encourage online gamblers to evade paying taxes on their winnings (after all, you'd be admitting to a criminal act if you provided accurate information in declaring your gambling income). Just what this country needs... another new class of criminal, and another missed opportunity. - kylebrothert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5"I'm sure that some politician threw in "think of the children" in the speech"
Or something about fighting terrorism.. - sneakerelph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5seems to be something to do with states that begin with the letter "W"
- NomenNescio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Where is your freedom now?
- nocode, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4So shouldn't search engines be illegal then?
- Gundam, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I think these anti-net neutrality people are funny.
1. There are 2 huge interests weighing in on this issue.
A.The Native Gaming Corporations - They put in a lot of money into trying to eliminate competition.
B. The "Moral" Right - Who feel that gambling should be illegal along with sex and alcohol.
This is pushed through by SPECIAL INTERESTS, very similar to the anti-net neutrality people. (Idiots and Business)
2. Almost nobody opposed this bill, its really kinda sad, one dem and four republicans voted against it. When special interests pay off both side the public loses.
3. Probably the majority of both bases oppose this but due to the huge amount of money behind the people who want it, it gets shoved through.
4. Libertarians are just as corruptible, but they are probably even more open to letting cooperations rape the public, due to their fantasy free market. The market in the long term tends towards consolidation, assuming that it will fix itself assumes morals.
Net neutrality is less the government regulating the net and more forcing the telecoms to not regulate it. - knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Okay, have fun not choosing your president, being spied on by your own government, and having your presious constitution figuratively burned in front of your eyes while all you do is blame it on liberalists.
- Bluth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm from Seattle and I bet this law won't last. Wait a sec? Oh *****...
- spikes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Wouldnt want the brick and mortar Casino's to lose out now would we?
- kylebrothert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In addition to regulating gambling, WA state gov also runs it's own operation (lotto). They're profiting from the same industry they're supposed to regulate.
They do the same thing with alcohol (we have state-run liquor stores). - rebelyell2k5, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4that cant hardly be constitutional.
- thatsiebguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I guess Washington couldn't figure out how to get taxes from internet gambling, so now they ban all aspects of it and bury it into the ground.
- knightblade2oo4, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8socialism > american facist democracy
- tormented, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Good luck with that. I'm not being sarcastic or anything I really mean good luck to you.
- strax, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh no. www.integritycasinoguide.com has been shut down by the man. However, the internet archive hosts an old cache of these very good online casino reviews at: http://tinyurl.com/l6vqd , and a more recent google cache can be found at http://tinyurl.com/z4h9h . Now tinyurl and digg are aiding and abetting.
- fitchmicah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It's about time we start to get worked up over this!
I am going to build a website that focuses on government misbehavior and concentrates info on it it so that people will get mad, swear, protest, yell, civil disobidiate, and stuff like that. - phreakout, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Whining Liberals hide behind Freedom of speech while the Nation's soul decays.
Telling someone about the existence of a type of crime clearly could lead to the possibility of that crime occuring where none had existed before. Information is aiding and abetting criminals daily, these vile pedagogues use and share information about crime to spread crime.
Anyone who mentions or refers to a crime should be guilty of aiding and abetting crime. Internet links, pamphlets even the spoken word can destroy your family and your community.
Controlling the publishing and dissemination of ideas is what copyright is for.
As every utterance is copyright or scrawl we need to aquire the right to the roots of all natural languages. Then use the copyright infringement laws to confiscate all materials and technology relating to materials that refer in any way to any crime. This will also have the added benefit of over time cleaning up movie and song lyrics.
In a similar way we can use patented gene sequences to sue anyone with genetically determined criminal tendencies, especially if they intend to reproduce.
"Project For A New American Century" - join us now and reserve your place in the walled cities. - andytheidiot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I'm fine with the online gambling being illegal, but stifling free speech is wrong. I imagine this will be struck down by the courts as a violation of the constitution.
- SilentPurity, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yeah really I hope you have good luck with that too. =D
*Knows fitchmicah will be shot by an operative sent by a certain Bush.* - Dissipate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why in the world should gambling on the Internet be illegal?
- tormented, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8"So go live in your lib paradises like Cuba or NK."
Go take your uneducated comments elsewhere. - spikes, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The same guys that have their VCR's flashing a steady 12:00 24/7 365 and would think a DVD is a new type of frisbee.
- tormented, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4You proved my point they are not the only examples of socialistic society. Its like attacking Capitalist society using Nazi Germany as an example. The things you are talking about are characteristics of a totalitarian state. Sorry I didn't mean this to become a personal attack, my apologies for that.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5First amendment doesn't apply speech such as conspiring to commit criminal activity. FTA this is "aiding and abetting"
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3DON'T THEY EVER ***** LEARN?
As soon as you make anything a taboo that's the first thing everybody's going to want. - CamperBob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For your information, otherland, the Supreme Court has roundly rejected prior restraint.
- jefferson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2America Land of the free, home of the brave oh wait hold on haven't the American people had it with their government, when are you going to get rid of bush, Cheney and the rest of the corrupt ***** ruining our god dam world? The money you waste on your friggin wars
1.War on Drugs (unwinnable)
2.War on Terror (unwinnable and only creates more terror)
3.War on ________ (insert anything the right wing conservative catholic church is against ie Porn, Gambling, Abortion, all unwinnable)
4. War on Crime (yes that three strikes law and the death penalty is really working, barbaric mother *****.)
5.Lets not forget Prohibition ( you banned alcohol for the love of God, alcohol?)
I feel sorry for you all you've been duped into thinking you have all these freedoms and democracy when you don't. But you already know this and will still vote for Jeb Bush next election. Every time you let the Government sanction and ban stuff like Gambling your moving slowly away from what America used to be. - foolfromhell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"The first victim of the new law is not charged with gambling itself, but of maintaining a website that discussed, reviewed AND linked to online gambling sites."
LOOPHOLE! Grammar loophole! they said "and:
So if my website only discussed and reviiewed, but not linked, Im safe! Then I could link to another one of my sites which linked! -
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