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WA Law Means Linking to Gambling Websites Illegal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-click-the-bad-links dept.

tpoker writes "Following a previous story on Washington State making online gambling a felony, the Seattle Times reports that the first legal salvos have begun. 'The first casualty in the state's war on Internet gambling is a local Web site where nobody was actually doing any gambling. What a Bellingham man did on his site was write about online gambling. He reviewed Internet casinos. He had links to them, and ran ads by them. All that, says the state -- the ads, the linking, even the discussing -- violates a new state law barring online wagering or using the Internet to transmit 'gambling information ... Telling people how to gamble online, where to do it, giving a link to it -- that's all obviously enabling something that is illegal.'"

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  1. Bets? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ten bucks says they find a way to lead Google away in handcuffs.

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  2. Re:Unconstitutionality approaching. by sconeu · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you mean? If we allow online gambling, the terrorists have won! Won't you Think Of The Children(tm)?

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  3. HA! by iminplaya · · Score: 5, Funny

    That'll show the Chinese who can censor better.

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  4. Yay! by Chas · · Score: 2, Funny

    Okay kiddies! Let's play "BREAK THE INTERNET!"

    You can't host, can't link, can't surf, can't, can't, can't.

    Your computer's on? Can't have that! ARREST HIM!

    Fuck, Yakov Smirnov's going to be moving back to Russia pretty soon.

    In Russia, you go to parties to fuck.

    In America, the parties fuck YOU!

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  5. Re:Unconstitutionality approaching. by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

    I say betwee n 3 and 4 ... wanna bet?

  6. stupidity by fish_in_the_c · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if it is illegal to offer a online gambling to ip addressing coming from Mexico on a server running in Washington state ( but inaccessible from that state.)

    Time to raid the server farms everyone.

    (how to get your competing server farm or web host if they are located in WA).
    1) rent from the space
    2) but up gambling sight ( using IP routed through foreign country.)
    3) report to WA the violation ( rinse repeate).

    Thus driving up your competitors operating costs because now they have to monitor every sight they host or be shut down.

    ( i know I know not that terribly realist but the thought was funny ;)

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  7. It's nice to see Washington State... by HotNeedleOfInquiry · · Score: 2, Funny

    Replace California with the new title of "People's Republik of Washington State"

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  8. Re:Why stop at one? by orkysoft · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's links all the way down!

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