Re: Useful legal analogy re Internet versus other \"legal\" gambling
The problem is, there is no ban on playing poker, only for money.
Read the UIGEA closely, free play where tokens are awarded and only redeemable on the specific site are allowed.
There is no ban concerning Internet poker, only playing for real money as put forth by the DoJ and others.
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"You'd have to get creative to argue that online gambling is free speech, I think."
How creative, really ?
1. Video games is a business, the company puts out software that someone pays to play on.
2. The publisher/provider of the software seems to enjoy speech protection.
3. Online poker sites publish/provide software that someone pays to play on.
4. Is there a valid "content" ban against real money play on the software ?? Under this line of cases, apparently not, because the same activity is allowed offline,by the government in brick & mortar venues.
5. Money laundering needs some evidentiary basis to stand up to scrutiny, otherwise why ban the activity rather than tailor a remedy for that possible ill. Cf ACLU v. Gonzales,
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