Online Gambling Advice Site Shutdown...

[zengrifter]

...Is BJINFO next? zg

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This column may be illegal

By Danny Westneat

Seattle Times staff columnist

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. He fancied himself a guide to an uncharted frontier, even compiling a list of "rogue casinos" that had bilked gamblers.

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."

"It's what the feds would call 'aiding and abetting,' " says the director of the state's gambling commission, Rick Day. "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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[ScottH]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

...Is BJINFO next? zg

I sure hope not!

[KenSmith]

Me too! I'm glad I don't live in Washington state. Obviously, I'm watching this situation with great interest.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

Me too! I'm glad I don't live in Washington state. Obviously, I'm watching this situation with great interest.

If the feds went after "advisory/link" sites, and an entrepreneur owned several such sites, that were percieved to be "aiding and abetting illegal gambling activities" could be charged with RICO.

Wake-up and smell the fascism! -zen(racketeer)

[ScottH]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

If the feds went after "advisory/link" sites, and an entrepreneur owned several such sites, that were percieved to be "aiding and abetting illegal gambling activities" could be charged with RICO.

Wake-up and smell the fascism! -zen(racketeer)

This forum isn't sponsoring anything illegal though.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by ScottH

This forum isn't sponsoring anything illegal though.

There's more to this website than the forums. zg

[ScottH]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

There's more to this website than the forums. zg

What exactly are you referring to? Are you talking about the "gambling online" section? Gambling online is not illegal in all states, I'm pretty sure. And counting cards isn't illegal anywhere in the US.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by ScottH

Gambling online is not illegal in all states

Of course it is! zg

[KenSmith]

No, actually, it's not. Sports gambling online is illegal, as it's covered by the Federal Wire Act. However, the courts have ruled on a couple of occasions that the Federal Wire Act does not apply to casino-style gambling online, despite the Justice Department's claims to the contrary.

Unless you live in a state where the state has made online gambling illegal, there is no law against it.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by KenSmith

Unless you live in a state where the state has made online gambling illegal, there is no law against it.

OH! I thought casino-type gambling was equally "illegal" under federal. zg