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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. Re:By the logic of WA lawmakers... by kfg · · Score: 3, Informative

    AOL added the word "breast" to their filters

    There are no bad words. Only fucking idiots.

    KFG

  2. Re:As a UK Tax payer... by kfg · · Score: 3, Informative

    Keep up the good work, why not try prohibition again as well?

    We did. We changed its focus, thinking that would make a difference somehow.

    Columbia thanks us.

    KFG

  3. Re:freedom of speech by stratjakt · · Score: 3, Informative

    Talking about it and linking to it are different things. The guy could have talked about the sites all he wanted, referred to them by name, and so on..

    He didn't cross the line until he explicitly linked to one.

    High Times doesn't get in any trouble for talking about weed, but if they started running ads for dealers willing to ship to the US... Trouble's afoot. Plenty of sites have been burned for linking to "seed banks" outside the US.

    Freedom of speech doesn't imply freedom of action. So sad, too bad.

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