Kentucky Appeals Court Tells Kentucky To Hold Off Seizing Domains
from the wait-just-a-second... dept
While a lower court in Kentucky had agreed to allow the state to seize 141 domain names as being "illegal gambling devices" despite having nothing to do with the state of Kentucky, other than being available on internet connections there (and everywhere else), an appeals court has now issued an injunction to stop the state from seizing the domains until the appeal can be heard. While we still have to wait for the full appeal, at least damage won't be done in the interim.There's one other interesting note in the article, which is that Kentucky's Attorney General appears to be trying to distance himself from the case. Even though most state actions are normally taken by the AGs office, in this case, the lawsuit was filed by the state's Secretary of Justice and Public Safety (there's some question if it's legal for this person to bring the suit). Either way, the AG's name was on the case, but he's now specifically asked to have his name removed from the case. That seems like quite a statement. When even the Attorney General of the state wants nothing to do with the lawsuit, perhaps it's time for the state to admit it overstepped some legal bounds.
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And yet, I can almost assure you it won't. Much like how California keeps wanting to pass that unconstitutional videogame law, despite knowing it's unconstitutional and it'll cost the taxpayers even more money.
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Oops. Did I say something unpopular and not PC?
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Separation of church and state died the day marriage was granted special rights and required money to enter one. Also, the will of the people as whole is a little thing called democracy. So, again, it has a lot to do with everyone.
On Topic: Thank god Kentucky is at least looking into this again.
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Yes, so in that vein if the majority want to burn "witches", enslave black people and castrate homosexuals, it's all cool that's democracy in action.
I'm not sure what's worse a bigot or someone with such insanely flawed logic, like you.
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> the definition of marriage has a lot do with
> you, and others committing blasphemies against
> your religion.
Since there is no state religion allowed in the USA, no one is entitled to a law prohibiting others from blaspheming their religion, per the 1st Amendment.
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"Since there is no state religion allowed in the USA, no one is entitled to a law prohibiting others from blaspheming their religion, per the 1st Amendment."
Your logic leads us to believe that, just because it is against someone's beliefs to do something, you are therefore automatically allowed to do it.
It is also prohibited by the Christian faith to commit murder. Apparently, you can kill me? Or, you can steal my belongings? Cheat me? Bodily injure me?
There's a limit. It is called morality. BTR, your way of thinking would lead to anarchism.
Congratulations to you and your kind for ruining the world.
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Consider this: for many years, the majority of American citizens supported slavery. While several of the enlightened thinkers of the time recognized that this was fundamentally immoral and wanted to act on this issue, they knew that freeing the slaves would be immensely unpopular, possibly enough to destabilize the fledgling nation. That's why the constitution had a clause (in Article I, Section 9) preventing Congress from stopping the importation of slaves.
Also, there are no legal ramifications for committing a blasphemy against someone's religion. If there were, our country would have to disband, due to the fact that certain fundamentalist sects believe the United States to be the land of Satan, and all its inhabitants deserving of hell. If you'd like, you can write to your representatives, you can protest, you can threaten to hold your breath until you turn blue unless your viewpoint becomes law, but I recommend that you consider what damage such laws can do in light of more fundamentalist forces.
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Why just gambling websites?
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The horse racing industy is huge in Kentucky. In Kentucky, we're fine with internet gambling as long as it's horse racing. Beshear is protecting his interests with them by claiming dominion over these sites all the while claiming it's for the children. I'm sure he'd love to put up a fence along the Ohio River to prevent people from crossing into Indiana to gamble to help out the horse racing industry. His plan...Well, Churchill Downs' plan is to have the tracks run Kentucky's casinos. Which I find amusing since they have no experience with any gambling other than horse racing. Their forray into online gambling didn't go very smoothly for those looking to wager on the Kentucky Derby this past year either. Millions of dollars were wagered elsewhere because the Churchill Downs website was unable to take bets.
If gambling ever does make it to the ballot, I just hope that Kentuckians will get their heads out of their asses and approve it. The state needs to increase its tax revenue. Gambling is a way to do so. A casino in Louisville (downtown Louisville, not at the track) would kill Caesars (excuse me Horseshoe). A couple in Northern Kentucky would kill Aztar and probably Belterra too.
I just don't understand why Kentucky can't get this approved. The argument of the morality of benefitting off the sins of another just blows my mind. The way Kentcuky sees it: horse racing is the sport of kings while craps leads to prostitution, organized crime, broken homes, etc. What kind of reasoning is that?
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>>Congratulations to you and your kind for ruining the world.
BTR1701 FTW!
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