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Friday 8th May 2009

Minnesota Ban May Be Stillborn

In America, a state representative has introduced legislation that would prevent the Minnesota Department Of Public Safety’s Alcohol And Gambling Enforcement Division (AGED) from carrying through with plans to block access to 200 online gambling sites. The news follows this week’s announcement by AGED that it had sent written notices to eleven national telephone and Internet service providers instructing them to bar access for Minnesota residents to certain online casinos and poker rooms. AGED is citing a law from 1961 and the case has similarities with the ultimately unsuccessful legal action undertaken by officials in Kentucky last year. According to a report from the Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper, legislation presented by State Representative Pat Garofalo would stop the northern state from carrying out its plans without approval from the legislature. 'The Department Of Public Safety has to have better things to do with their time than to go after a college kid in his dorm room or some guy sitting in his basement spending a couple of hours playing online poker,' said Garofalo. 'Demanding that a private-sector Internet service provider block access to websites is not a proper function of our state government. I'm certainly not condoning online gambling but I have serious concerns about government banning access to websites. This is the kind of thing they do in communist China not the United States Of America. 'Besides, how about we focus on balancing the state's $6.4 billion budget deficit and not harassing Minnesotans anymore than Democrat legislative leaders are already trying to do.' John Willems, Director for AGED, expressed disappointment with the legislation introduced by the Republican representative, stating that it reflected a ‘180-degree turn from the current enforcement efforts towards illegal online gambling, particularly those that are being currently undertaken’.

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