Australian and US police to target online poker

deucem · May 20, 2011

And so it continues.........

http://www.news.com.au/technology/a...gal-online-poker/story-e6frfro0-1226059970964

OzExorcist · May 20, 2011

The reason nobody's been prosecuted yet is because the government made a stupid, unenforceable law in the first place.

Sometimes I wonder if they did that on purpose just to preserve the status quo - sites get to continue operating because the government knew full well when the law got passed that they were outside their jurisdiction anyway but the land based casinos get to think they're keeping their government-guaranteed monopolies and anti-gambling groups get pacified because the government has done something, no matter how meaningless it is in reality.

Anywho, here's hoping the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy and they listen to the Productivity Commission and regulate instead of chasing idiotic prosecutions.

dj11 · May 20, 2011

OzExorcist said:
The reason nobody's been prosecuted yet is because the government made a stupid, unenforceable law in the first place.

Sometimes I wonder if they did that on purpose just to preserve the status quo - sites get to continue operating because the government knew full well when the law got passed that they were outside their jurisdiction anyway but the land based casinos get to think they're keeping their government-guaranteed monopolies and anti-gambling groups get pacified because the government has done something, no matter how meaningless it is in reality.

Anywho, here's hoping the whole thing collapses under the weight of its own hypocrisy and they listen to the Productivity Commission and regulate instead of chasing idiotic prosecutions.

They do this sneaky thing here as well as there, they tag the word illegal to some subject, like aliens or drugs or poker and tarnish clear thinking completely.

Here in the US, we actually benefit from aliens, the drug companies are huge and online poker has not been deemed illegal.

It is sneakiness at it's sleaziest.

Money laundering eh? Easiest way in the whole world to launder money would be to advertise on E-Bay, some legal product and have your cronies use pay pal to move the money. Can't even imagine a way to stop that because you could show enough transactions that are legal to cover
the 1 or 2 that are laundered. Easy peasy.

Makes me want to do something stupid...

laidlow · May 21, 2011

I'm ashamed to have voted for our current government sometimes, they're so stupid it amazes me sometimes!

RamdeeBen · May 21, 2011

I thought it was legal in Australia.

"As The Courier-Mail reported last month, several young Queenslanders are making a mint playing poker online sometimes earning up to $750,000 a year tax-free"

Quotes like that really annoy me. What is their point with this quote? And? Who cares, really? Good luck to them. Every country seem to be money grabbing at everything, I wonder why they don't tax the national lottery?

The thing is, people who have started to gamble used their OWN money which was earned through their jobs that paid taxes anyway, yet they feel it's within their right to take a big percentage through tax.

Such a joke, yet events which draw in money for everyone which involves gambling they don't tax you on.

At the end of the day, if you GAMBLE your OWN money, you shouldn't ever have to pay tax on it ANYWHERE.

BigJamo · May 21, 2011

The saga continues

OzExorcist · May 21, 2011

laidlow said:
I'm ashamed to have voted for our current government sometimes, they're so stupid it amazes me sometimes!

The law in question was passed by the Howard government.

Kenzie 96 · May 21, 2011

dj11 said:
They do this sneaky thing here as well as there, they tag the word illegal to some subject, like aliens or drugs or poker and tarnish clear thinking completely.

Here in the US, we actually benefit from aliens, the drug companies are huge and online poker has not been deemed illegal.

It is sneakiness at it's sleaziest.

Money laundering eh? Easiest way in the whole world to launder money would be to advertise on E-Bay, some legal product and have your cronies use pay pal to move the money. Can't even imagine a way to stop that because you could show enough transactions that are legal to cover
the 1 or 2 that are laundered. Easy peasy.

Makes me want to do something stupid...

OMFG, your not thinkin of playin razz on Bodog

dj11 · May 21, 2011

Kenzie 96 said:
OMFG, your not thinkin of playin razz on Bodog

Rather play online Bingo for playchips.........

Ambers Advice · May 22, 2011

This whole thing reminds me of that scene from scarface.
Where Mr Montana goes on a huge rant about how everyone needs someone to point the finger at and call them the bad guy.

Thats what this whole thing is about.

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OzExorcist · May 22, 2011

Ambers Advice said:
This whole thing reminds me of that scene from scarface.
Where Mr Montana goes on a huge rant about how everyone needs someone to point the finger at and call them the bad guy.

Thats what this whole thing is about.

N'yeah... it's not really like that at all. In America the situation (as far as I can tell) stems from a public perception that gambling is sinful and bad. That's not really the case here - gambling is part of Australian culture, we love it. Our online poker situation only exists because of agreements between our government and our land-based casinos.

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