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Protesting Censorship

The proposed Kentucky legislation that would force online casinos to exit the US market by threat of shutting down their domain names is garnering heated debate and outcries from gambling companies and those associated with the industry. The player advocacy group the Poker Players Alliance publicly denounced the newly planned legislation and the PPA fears what implementation of this legislation could mean for the future of the internet gambling industry. The US is one of the few global markets that has yet to really place strong restrictions on content that companies can post on the sites – and even those that violate the law (like those online casinos still catering to US players) are brought before the courts.

Steve Beshear, the Kentucky Governor, has announced a plan to confiscate roughly 141 domain names – some of which are registered internationally as a means to forced compliance with the state’s impending ban on online casino gambling activity. The PPA has reacted strongly against this planned legislation and the head of the PPA, Jon Pappas, was quick to note that the implementation would set a dangerous “precedent for censorship of the Internet by force,” a situation that extends even beyond the online casino gambling industry.

The PPA is well known for the organizations open and strong support of efforts to legalize, license, and regulate the online casino gambling industry. The PPA used the heated media attention on Beshear’s plan to further press politicians to support efforts that would protect US gamblers through regulation of the internet rather than bans that are questionably legal and fairly ineffective in the long-run.