Online Gambling War

October 9, 2008

Kentucky has gotten itself into the midst of the online gambling war whether they wanted to be there or not. Governor Beshear has decided that it would be appropriate for the states of Kentucky to take control of the online gambling site names of the internet casinos that they have decided are illegal.

Last month, the state seized 141 online gambling names stating that they were illegal. They were trying to force the forfeiture of the domain names so that they could shut down what they saw as illegal, unregulated online gambling.

The offshore online gambling sites are heading back to court to fight Kentucky on the seizure, and as of right now the court has given them a continuance in the fight. But many are angry with the state in what they see as an illegal seizure.

The state said that the online gambling sites were preying on their state’s citizens, and that they needed to be shut down. The online gambling sites say that this is censorship at its very core. In addition to the online gambling industry, free speech advocates are in agreement that this is not the step that needs to be taken in the online casino industry.

They are concerned that by regulating online gambling in a way that gives the state’s the right to determine what is on online casinos, they are giving them the right to determine what is on the internet at all.





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