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Originally Posted by Greg (FossilMan)
Heh. I wish I knew. When we still had the PPA, we couldn't get more than a handful of poker players to execute the Daily Action Plan. That was something Rich Muny used to put out. It was literally a series of links that auto-filled either a few emails, or tweets, or FB postings, directed at politicians. It literally could be done in under a minute. In under 10 seconds by most people. And it had been shown to make a big impact on the politicians. And yet, when we should have easily been able to get at least tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of players to do it, we were only getting a few dozen to a couple of hundred. It was free and easy to do, and they still wouldn't do it. SMH.
Greg, "we", meaning poker players, never "had the PPA". The PPA was always in the pocket of whoever was trying to carve out a protectionist monopoly for themselves as operators.
It was always "top down" with respect to players. Because of the protectionist bent of the PPA, there was no simple declaration from the PPA or DOJ that online poker was NOT prohibited federally.
It took the change in administration and the eventual win by litigation in the First Circuit for DOJ to throw in the towel on the fictional Wire Act extension to prohibit poker.
Last edited by Gzesh; 07-29-2021 at 11:32 AM.