Wikileaks and Harry Reid's Bill to save / ban / protect / squash Online PokerPosted Dec 07, 2010 at 7:54 PM |
*** WARNING: The blogger is not claiming to be a legal expert. The crack legal team here at DD has yet to digest all of this. Claims made are that of the Icon, Bryan Micon.
Jullian Assange is the man. His Wikileaks organization has managed to piss off most of the world. Personally, I'm pretty pissed off at Bradley Manning, the leaker of the major headshot of semi-secret shit that will damage the USA. Conversely, I heart Jullian Assange, who certainly has put his life on the line for what he believes in: true, unabated freedom of speech. Today Jullian was arrested, and I want to go on record now as saying he will cleared of the rape charges, and they will ultimately be exposed as politically motivated. Also today Visa and Mastercard followed Paypal's lead in exiting the business of processing Wikileaks support payments, a source of money that Wikileaks relies almost 100% on. One can only speculate at the political motivations behind these almost simultaneous, high profile withdraws from two staunch competitors in the payment processing industry. The optimist in me would have loved to see a major payment processing company stand up for freedom of speech, but there is likely too large of a business detriment attached to that stance.
So what does this have to do with internet pokers and Harry Reid, who if you believed Sharron Angle's borderline insane campaign commercials a few months ago, was responsible for the entire housing crisis? Well let me explain: Earlier yesterday rumors starting floating around the internet that there was a bill to alter the legality / taxation / regulation of online poker. Originally this information showed up on 2+2, which is currently (and unfortunately) the main poker collective conscious of poker players. Oddly enough, the moment this bill was posted online there were calls to delete it, as the 2+2'ers decided that posting this information would somehow cause the bill not to pass. And with DD being the TMZ / Wikileaks of the poker internets, I twittered asking for a copy of this bill, and low and behold it shows up on page two of this thread (albeit posted by Druff.) This is a small win but more importantly illustrates the purpose of DonkDown - if a piece of information is deemed too hot for other poker organizations, we will work hard to host it here. Wikileaks style. Mental note: go to firing range and hone gun skills this month.
Jullian Assange is the man. His Wikileaks organization has managed to piss off most of the world. Personally, I'm pretty pissed off at Bradley Manning, the leaker of the major headshot of semi-secret shit that will damage the USA. Conversely, I heart Jullian Assange, who certainly has put his life on the line for what he believes in: true, unabated freedom of speech. Today Jullian was arrested, and I want to go on record now as saying he will cleared of the rape charges, and they will ultimately be exposed as politically motivated. Also today Visa and Mastercard followed Paypal's lead in exiting the business of processing Wikileaks support payments, a source of money that Wikileaks relies almost 100% on. One can only speculate at the political motivations behind these almost simultaneous, high profile withdraws from two staunch competitors in the payment processing industry. The optimist in me would have loved to see a major payment processing company stand up for freedom of speech, but there is likely too large of a business detriment attached to that stance.
So what does this have to do with internet pokers and Harry Reid, who if you believed Sharron Angle's borderline insane campaign commercials a few months ago, was responsible for the entire housing crisis? Well let me explain: Earlier yesterday rumors starting floating around the internet that there was a bill to alter the legality / taxation / regulation of online poker. Originally this information showed up on 2+2, which is currently (and unfortunately) the main poker collective conscious of poker players. Oddly enough, the moment this bill was posted online there were calls to delete it, as the 2+2'ers decided that posting this information would somehow cause the bill not to pass. And with DD being the TMZ / Wikileaks of the poker internets, I twittered asking for a copy of this bill, and low and behold it shows up on page two of this thread (albeit posted by Druff.) This is a small win but more importantly illustrates the purpose of DonkDown - if a piece of information is deemed too hot for other poker organizations, we will work hard to host it here. Wikileaks style. Mental note: go to firing range and hone gun skills this month.
