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Can
Kentucky
Win?
November
18,
2008
With
everyone
focusing
on
Obama
and
McCain,
the
elections
took
over
the
thought
process
of
everyone
within
hearing
distance
of a
television
or
radio.
All
everyone
wanted
to
talk
about
was
the
election
and
who
our
next
President
would
be.
But
in
all
that
talk
of
elections,
we
lost
focus
on
the
online
gambling
battle
that
was
going
on
with
Kentucky.
The
court
case
that
is
currently
going
on
is
looking
to
regulate
access
to
online
gambling
and
give
them
possession
of
the
online
gambling
site
names
that
they
feel
are
breaking
Kentucky
law
and
tempting
their
citizens.
So
far,
it
looks
as
though
the
court
case
is
going
in
Kentucky’s
favor,
and
they
may
be
awarded
access
to
the
internet
domain
names.
The
argument
remains
however
as
to
whether
or
not
a
state
has
the
right
to
reach
into
the
online
world
and
impose
their
laws
on a
web
site.
There
are
some
rules
and
regulations
that
are
illegal
no
matter
what
state
you
are
in
as
they
are
government
rules,
and
crimes
against
humanity.
Internet
child
pornography
sites
are
illegal
no
matter
how
you
look
at
it,
but
online
gambling
sites
are
not
necessarily
so.
Just
because
one
state
is
not
allowing
online
gambling,
it
doesn’t
mean
that
all
states
are
not
allowing
online
gambling.
It
is a
state
law,
not
a
government
one,
even
though
many
thought
after
the
passage
of
the
UIGEA
that
online
gambling
was
illegal
even
though
it
wasn’t.
Some
think
that
the
case
is
simply
about
online
gambling,
but
it
really
has
to
do
with
all
online
commerce.
If
we
allow
Kentucky
to
seize
the
online
gambling
names
of
these
sites,
then
what
is
to
stop
NJ
from
seizing
bestbuy.com
because
they
have
made
it
illegal
to
sell
electronics
over
the
internet?
Or
California
to
make
electricity
payments
illegal
and
thus
take
every
electric
company
in
the
country
and
seize
their
website?
It
is a
slippery
slope
that
they
are
on.
One
thing
is
for
sure,
if
you
allow
them
to
seize
online
gambling
names,
something
else
will
be
next.
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