Backlash against WA law

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The controversy is around the prohibitions against linking to gambling sites as opposed to making online poker a felony, but that's fine, as long as it gets this law changed.

From today's edition of a major daily Seattle paper



Online Gambling: Retool state law

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER EDITORIAL BOARD

Washington legislators would do well to retool their new Internet gambling law before the courts do it for them.

The law, which took effect June 7, seems to unjustifiably threaten free speech rights.

It makes it a felony if someone "knowingly transmits or receives gambling information" online. That's casting an unacceptably broad net.