What can a ISP do to stop you from playing online poker (long)

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Worst case scenario: It does pass and access to poker sites is blocked. I would only be upset about there being less players to get money from.

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but that is exactly the point.
most of the players and nearly all of the fish will be gone, because they definitely won't like to race against the ISPs.
tuff_fish might stay..but he is special [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

that is, the games will dry up fast, and the industry will die.

but as another poster already mentioned, there is something that could work.
the whole tunnelling/proxy stuff will have to be included in the clients therefore making it completely transparent for the users.

so if the pokersites take care of that, than no problem.
if the users will have to get creative then the PARTY will be over [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Just where in the US Constitution does it state that you have a right to play play money poker online? I see this silly arguemrnt so much it makes me want to puke!!

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The argument JPFisher was making was in regards to the 5th amendement right to due process of law for life, liberty, and property.

In other words, they couldn't deprive people the liberty of legally accessing free play sites, or from making legal transactions on Neteller via a blanket blocking and assumption of guilt of online gambling.

The law is written as making it a crime to operate an internet gambling operation, but enforced by restricting the liberties of citizens who aren't being given substantive due process as outlined in our constitution.

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Basically, you're thinking about our Constitution in the wrong way. In a simplistic sense, it's not, "The Constitution doesn't say it's OK so it's not"; it's, "The Constitution doesn't say it's not OK, so it is."


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Does the constitution say anything about speed limits? Organic labeling? Airport regilations? Shall I go on? You are missing the point it seems. If a law passes congress that stops you from partaking in play money tables at offshore poker sites the Constitution is not going to help you.