***Official PL article thread***

[DrewOnTilt]

Originally Posted by kwansolo

really good fox news(!) article: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...ices-decision/

That's from Michelle Minton. She has typically been very supportive of us.

[TheEngineer]

Originally Posted by DrewOnTilt

That's from Michelle Minton. She has typically been very supportive of us.

She posts here on occasion, too.

[DrewOnTilt]

yeah she def. fits in around here. From her Twitter profile:

Director of Sindustry studies at CEI, promotes liberty by defending the likes of gamblers, smokers, drinkers, & insurance agents (basically one and the same)

[Conan776]

Here's the Wikipedia (meta) article, FWIW

[lionkiller]

Here's an article which addresses the issue how safe a player's money is:

http://paddypowerpokerblog.wordpress...-freddie-mays/

It's mainly for European players. There's an interesting point in there on the issue of the segregation of players' funds. Just because a site states they segregated, doesn't necessarily mean it is so.

[TheEngineer]

Originally Posted by kwansolo

really good fox news(!) article: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/...ices-decision/

Upvote on DIGG at http://digg.com/news/politics/online...ice_s_decision

[raradevils]

Originally Posted by stevematador

Saw this earlier on Twitter, we do need to re-tweet these types of stories to let our voices and side of this be heard!!

everyone should be posting these thing on your facebook wall......let everyone know!!

[DonkeyCongUnited]

John Batchelor radio show (WABC and syndicated) last night had an interview with Alexandra Berzon of the Wall Street Journal regarding the situation. it was pretty much just the facts to date. Batchelor makes a great derisive comment at the end comparing current moralizers to those of the past. interview starts at 9:10.

http://podfuse-dl.andomedia.com/8001...bs_042211c.mp3

[standingwave]

April 23, 2011
Craig Rondinone, Bleacher Report

The United States Misses the Mark with Online Poker

Most other countries have no such problem with poker, so their citizens are still free to play at the sites that have prohibited Americans from playing.

Politicians will tell you that they want to put a dent in the United States’ astronomical debt. But if that was truly the case, why not legalize online poker and rake in millions and billions in tax revenue from it?

Politicians will tell you that they want to create more jobs and cut down on unemployment. But if that were truly the case, why put millions of professional online poker players out of work? Now you are adding to the unemployment problem, as these card sharks will look for regular jobs.

For those who prefer to keep playing poker as their full-time job, now you are chasing them away to other countries where online poker is legal, so having Americans flock to other countries does not do our economy any good.

And what about the other people employed because of the poker? Poker writers, poker magazine editors, poker television producers, poker merchandisers, etc.

Now many of them will be out of work as poker-related businesses will surely slice their payroll in the wake of this financial fiasco.

[TomVeil]

Not to mention that the #1 job of the government should be to protect your freedoms, not curtail them because they aren't getting paid.

[Russ Fox]

An excellent op-ed was on page 1 of the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section today. The op-ed was written by Marc Cooper, Professor of Journalism at USC.

[RedEyedTroll]

Originally Posted by Russ Fox

An excellent op-ed was on page 1 of the Los Angeles Times' Opinion section today. The op-ed was written by Marc Cooper, Professor of Journalism at USC.

+1 Good find and good read. I really like the last sentence.

[standingwave]

The Ludwig von Mises Institute (LvMI), based in Auburn, Alabama, is a libertarian academic organization engaged in research and scholarship in the fields of economics, philosophy and political economy.

The DOJ “Liberated” Poker from the Market’s Tyranny

The first response of many folks to the Justice Department’s recent crackdown on online poker was, “Doesn’t the government have anything better to do?” I find this reaction puzzling. What could be a more essential function of the state than to undermine public confidence in the market?

I’m not being facetious. The axiom of all state intervention is that nothing can exist without government. In antitrust, for example, there is a famous quote, attributed to Thurgood Marshall, that the Sherman Act is the “Magna Carta of free enterprise.” If there’s no antitrust, how can there be competition? Ignoring the fact that markets functions long before the Sherman Act’s invention in 1890, the insidious implication is that no individual can have any confidence in a market that is not directly or indirectly controlled by antitrust officials.

The DOJ’s crackdown on poker, likewise, sends an important message to the general population that this was a dysfunctional market that can only be made functional by the benevolent hand of the state. Indeed, after the initial “don’t you have anything better to do” reaction, the secondary response of many poker professionals was to blame inadequate lobbying for the present situation. If only poker players were more politically savvy and organized, the theory goes, then they’d be in a better position to assert their “special” interests. And that plays right into the hands of the DOJ and the larger government it serves. After all, the feds don’t want to eliminate online poker; they simply want to ensure there is no free market for online poker.

more at the link...

http://blog.mises.org/16621/the-doj-...rkets-tyranny/

[Richas]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-shut-down-fbi

Guardian article here in the UK but read a lot online in the US.

Being in the UK it is a bit basic, nothing new but does show the importance of a personal story to hang an article off.

Far worse is this addict written article which has a comment section where he argues against regulation as too weak (for his problem)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...=ILCNETTXT3487

[kwansolo]

Originally Posted by Richas

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...-shut-down-fbi

Angry poker players – who argue that their game is one of skill, not luck, so it is not gambling – took to the web to express themselves. The attorney general's Wikipedia entry was changed: "Bharara is a naturalized American citizen who spends what little free time he has bullying the homeless on the streets on NYC. Furthermore, he is wasting time and money chasing down poker sites to compensate for his small genitalia," it read.

lol