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Am I right in thinking that Facebook is an American business doing something in another country which is illegal in the US? Internet gambling was banned in the
by alan_cx 14y ago
Am I right in thinking that Facebook is an American business doing something in another country which is illegal in the US? Internet gambling was banned in the US, right? And that's fine with US authorities? But if a foreign business, like say Megaupload, does something which is illegal in the US, but in a foreign country all hell breaks loose.
So:
US company + breaks US law + foreign country = OK
Foreign company + breaks US law + foreign country = not OK
Is this not a double standard? I mean, Im still not seen google's torrent search being attacked by the FBI or who ever.
Don't get me wrong here, I don't support laws banning gambling, and I'm all for facebook, or who ever, having gambling operations where they like, but it doesn't sit right give the over all context at all.
Must have missed something, cant imagine US authorities really behaving in such a biased way.
- uptown 14y agoI believe the difference between the two is that Facebook is planning to constrain the use of the gambling to countries and users where it is regulated and legal, so no laws will be broken provided those constraints are adhered to. I haven't read a lot about the MU case, but I believe the allegations are that they facilitated copyright infringement with no constraints on geographical location where this infringement took place - so it happened in countries where there are laws prohibiting such activities.
- capsule_toy 14y agoOnline gambling isn't illegal in the US, but financing it has been illegal since the SAFE Port Act[1] passed. Poker sites were still getting around the provision by hiding the source of transactions through payment processors. The recent shutdown of poker sites to US customers was actually a shutdown of these payment processors used to fund US accounts. 1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act#Internet_gambling_provisions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAFE_Port_Act#Internet_gambling...