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Minnesota in the Wrong? Now that Minnesota is trying to ban their citizens from accessing online poker and gambling casino websites, you can bet that the various websites are none too thrilled about it. Even people who are not personally on the side of online poker gambling are against the huge involvement that the state of Minnesota is assuming to have the jurisdiction over. Not only does that ban assume that the Department of Public Safety has the power to made laws, but also, sets a dangerous precedent that the government is able to decide when it is ok to censor American access to websites and violate the fundamental amendments on which the country’s legislative process is based. They released a long list of 200 online poker casinos, including Bodog, Titan Poker, Everest Poker, Hollywood poker et cetera. iMEGA, the Interactive Media Entertainment and Gaming Association, is none too thrilled about all of this of course, and they do not think that the Department of Public Safety really thought the whole thing through, since they cite that many of the casinos on the list don’t even accept American customers in the first place. It would only be logical that they just threw the whole list together as a show of brute force and intimidation so that people would pay attention. Either way, people would not be surprised if iMEGA decides not to stay quiet about the obvious violations of the amendments and the American way of doing things, and people are wary of government involvement of this nature in the first place. Futhermore, if this is upheld and enforced it will mean that the state of Minnesota has the power to decide arbitrarily what constitutes passable websites, since there is no law that makes online poker illegal right now.
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