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Sinsemilla = without seed

Shit, I learn something new every day.

Gov. Beshear wants to legalize casinos, and these sites would take money away from them. If the house is going to take a rake, apparently the house’s house needs something on the order of twice that amount.

The NY attorney general should use this precedent to assume control of KY operated Amazon.com in regards to the sales tax collection issue they have harassed Amazon associates about.

/ From KY

Radley, I’ve never seen anything on this site that would get you in trouble in Canada. Lior, can you point to any specific posts?

Canada does not allow one to criticize ANY government institution, regardless of where it is located, or how silly it is. This is punishable by being force fed Tim Hortons donuts and Molson Canadian until you explode.

I could be wrong, but I think all legal betting in Kentucky is parimutuel. It seems to me that poker is basically parimutuel, but regular sportsbooks, like William Hill, certainly are not.

It’s discriminatory because Kentucky allows internet gambling of certain types (mainly horse racing) from companies located in the U.S., but presumably now will not allow it for William Hill from England. This is the same argument that Antigua used to win their case against the US with the WTO. Of course, the US has decided to ignore any WTO ruling they don’t agree with.

The real problem is that an essential internet corporation, ICANN, is located in the US (specifically, in California) and that sometimes US authorities abuse this situation. Of course, this is not mere happenstance: the internet is an outgrowth of ARPANET. Nevertheless, ICANN being situated in the US makes it subject to the whims of US government agencies. These are commonly driven by internal US considerations rather than global ones. Thus here, Kentucky (a governmental entity in the US) ordered ICANN to transfer some domains, and ICANN agreed to do this pending a final judgement — but without fighting the ruling themselves.

I’m not saying that having ICANN headquartered in Canada and subjected to Canadian “anti-discrimination” must-discriminate laws would be better. Having ICANN be a UN body would be even worse. Nevertheless it needs to be understood that the Internet is subject to more US control that one naively expects from its global nature.

You think a piddling quibble–or a quibbling piddle–like that will STOP them? Christ I hope you’re right.

I cannot see how the judge’s ruling jibes with the US Constitution’s commerce clause. The ruling means nothing.

I’m not sure I follow. While the Commerce Clause authorizes Congress to regulate commerce, state legislation that is neither discriminatory against out-of-state business nor preempted by federal law, is constitutional. I don’t see how the ruling is discriminatory, however unworkable it turns out to be, and it doesn’t seem that there is a basis for arguing federal preemption here (I don’t think any of the defendants raised it).

chsw

I misspoke, above, however: the question is whether in rem jurisdiction, not personal jurisdiction, exists over the domain names.

Have any of these marching imbeciles actually thought about how they would go about enforcing this law, other than the sites voluntarily blocking all of Kentucky?

They could require the ISPs to block the website by IP address. Basically, just do a dig on all 140 domain names and send the list to the cable and phone company… then they’ll put an ACL blocking traffic to those IPs (nevermind that IPs can and do change or that multiple, unrelated websites can share an IP) on their edge routers.

Don’t laugh, as ridiculous and technically unwieldy as that sounds it’s been tried before. In that case it was Pennsylvania trying to block access to child porn, and it was found to violate the first amendment… I suspect the same will hold true in Kentucky eventually.

All ISP’s must remove or disable links to unlawful internet gambling sites. Move over China, the US censorship has begun.

I’m not saying this is such a case. I haven’t read the opinion. It’s something to consider before calling the judge names, though.

Judge Wingate wrote that, not the Governor.