WA Law Means Linking to Gambling Websites Illegal

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 16, 2006 @08:15AM 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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Bets? by Rob+T+Firefly · 2006-06-16 08:18 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Re:Unconstitutionality approaching. by sconeu · 2006-06-16 08:19 · 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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HA! by iminplaya · 2006-06-16 08:29 · Score: 5, Funny

That'll show the Chinese who can censor better.

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Re:Unconstitutionality approaching. by tomhudson · 2006-06-16 08:46 · Score: 3, Funny

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