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Journal pudge's Journal: Online Gambling and Felonies 10

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My letter to the editor about online gambling was printed today in the Seattle Times.

I didn't see it yesterday, but one of the other letters links to a column from yesterday where the director of the state's gambling commission says that a web site that links to online gambling sites is violating the law, by "aiding and abetting." Totally not kidding.

He even says that the Seattle Times itself could be liable for criminal penalties if it provides links to online gambling sites.

The funniest part is the one web site proprietor who says, "I can't believe this is happening in a liberal place like Washington." Another letter writer echoes the sentiment: "Who would have ever thought that liberal Washington would be the home of the Thought Police??"

Um ... me? It's amazing to me that people think liberals are not in generally in favor of policing thought. Liberals are the ones who shut down ads about cigarettes and liquor, who gave us hate speech laws, who censored political speech from broadcast radio and TV and tried to get Limbaugh kicked off the air, and so on. Not that conservatives aren't as bad, but I have no idea where this "liberals are against thought policing/for free speech" nonsense came from.

Addendum: I must be playing too much poker online, because after posting this journal entry and seeing the number was 137771, I thought, "full house!"

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  • Our local Congresswomen is a co-sponsor of the bill to expand the wire act (the ancient law which prohibits telephone gambling) to include internet gambling. I sent her a letter expressing my displeasure, and was told that internet gambling is a hotbed for money laundering by organized crime and terrorist groups. What a load of crap.

    What happened to our free country? StalinsNotDead's retired sig [slashdot.org] seems to apply more and more every day.

    • Re:Sad (Score:2)

      by pudge ( 3605 ) *
      I have absolutely no doubt that online gambling is used to launder money. But so are many other things.
    • Watch out Bodak - if Pudge clicks on that link you have in the comment header, he's headed to jail!!! And they'll probably sic the FBI on you...

      If money laundering was reason to shut something like this down, they'd get rid of garbage collection [usdoj.gov], too. Idiots.
  • a web site that links to online gambling sites is violating the law, by "aiding and abetting."

    So Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile and every other search engine around can be sued because they can tell you where to go get your Class C Felony?

    I have a feeling, although I have done no research, that this may be unconstitutional either at the state or federal level.

  • Um ... me? It's amazing to me that people think liberals are not in generally in favor of policing thought. Liberals are the ones who shut down ads about cigarettes and liquor, who gave us hate speech laws, who censored political speech from broadcast radio and TV and tried to get Limbaugh kicked off the air, and so on. Not that conservatives aren't as bad, but I have no idea where this "liberals are against thought policing/for free speech" nonsense came from.

    Meanwhile, there's some pretty good quotes

    • Conservatives (at least the conservatives that I have been around) also get pissed when you dissent against anybody (especially the president) on their side of government and tell you to move to another country if you don't like it here. As Pudge said, there are abuses on each side.
      • Conservatives (at least the conservatives that I have been around) also get pissed when you dissent against anybody (especially the president) on their side of government and tell you to move to another country if you don't like it here.

        I say that too, if the dissent is of the form "America sucks, we should have socialism/communism." If you think that, leave.

        Other than that and statements like it, that attack the real core of what America is, not only do I have a strong tolerance for dissent -- as do most
  • Liberals like to feign unawareness of their long list of contributions towards policing thought, and fancy themselves more like libertarians, similar to how they like to fancy themselves "centrists". Part of it may be that liberals predominately support the ACLU, and historically that organization has defended free speech, and they think no one's noticed that it's turned towards devoting most of its time to stifling free expression (like religious expression).

    I do remember, however, that then NY Governor Ma

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