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Re: Useful legal analogy re Internet versus other \"legal\" gambling
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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, [/ QUOTE ] The more I think about it, the more it would be very, very simple for the government to argue that online poker presents substantially greater dangers of money laundering than B&M poker. |
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