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Minnesota Forcing Censorship of Internet Casinos

May 2, 2009 - Minnesota Forcing Censorship of Internet Casinos

The state of Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety has announced that the state’s eleven fundamental Internet service providers have been sent written notice that it will be necessary for them to censor two hundred online casinos. The state feels that it is permitted to block these Internet sites due to the fifty-year old federal law that makes it illegal for phone companies to do business with gambling services.

However, legal experts feel that in view of the change in technology represented by the Internet and the fact that the federal law was implemented to apply to phone carriers and to forbid direct business with gambling operations, the state is using the law in an inappropriate manner.

John Morris, general counsel at the Centre for Democracy and Technology feels that the state is not reading the law correctly and that no court would grant the Minnesota’s Department of Public Safety the order to censor the online casinos.

Observers feel that the Department should endeavor to make new laws and not try to impose new interpretations to existing laws and members of Imega and the Poker Players Alliance are among many who are trying to prevent the blockage of the Internet sites in question.

In Pennsylvania a law was attempted to block pornographic sites but failed as many legitimate sites would also be banned. Internet filtering has been rejected all over the world as it is ineffective.

The Poker Players Alliance’s state Director for Minnesota announced that this is a clear misrepresentation of Federal law by the government used to try and censor the Internet and that it is not illegal to play this great pastime online.

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