Comments on: Second Life Targeted for Shutdown as a “Game of Skill”?

By: Romanza Pomilio

Romanza Pomilio — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:42:10 +0000

This is just another load of crap put in place by people who have no idea what they are talking about.
If our representatives have nothing better to do that mess with 2nd life we’re all in a deep pile of doo doo.
Evidently, no one has told them SL is not a game of skill or a gambling site!!
Besides, the kind of money SL/LL brings in tax revenues to the state, federal and foreign governments is beyond our imaginations. SL/LL is big business in the U.S. and before it gets shut down so will wall street and some mortgage companies in this country. lol

By: LindenLover

LindenLover — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:43:59 +0000

If the U.S. Congress continues to pander to the interests of land based casino lobbyists and attack internet gambling, then Second Life will just move outside of the United States.

By: Sadako Shikami

Sadako Shikami — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:19:41 +0000

well, SL could be called a “game of skill” but nearly all of SL is built by people creating objects and skinning those objects … that’s a skill, and a talent in some cases, but it’s in no way related to gambling. gambling games of skill are still fixed to benefit the owners of the machine, not the players. oh wait, maybe SL *is* a game of skill then? *winks*

By: Nikola Shirakawa

Nikola Shirakawa — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:01:17 +0000

Why do people think they can block anything on the internet? A bit of proxification and a bounce off of Sweden and even the most stringent of blocks is wiped out.

By: Sigmund Leominster

Sigmund Leominster — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 16:07:43 +0000

I may have said this before – and I write so much that my aging brain has a hard time logging such activity – but there are three things that we in the US have always had a hard time with: Sex, booze, and gambling. Since the cutting of King George’s umbilical cord, various special interest groups have tried their damndest to control any activity involving these three behaviors – with varying degrees of success.

If someone wants to spend their money on shooting craps, go for it: If someone wants to enter into a private transaction for sex with a prostitute, hand over the cash: If someone wants to go out at the weekend and drink Budweiser with Jagerbomb chasers, have at it. Oh wait, I already DO that one!

My mom lives over 4000 miles away and I don’t recall her asking the US government to act in loco parentis and decide what I can and cannot spend my money on. Uncle Sam gets his pound of flesh from me so he can damn well leave the rest of it alone so I can do what I want with what’s left.

And if I want to drink whiskey at the poker table with the whore I’m paying for the night, that’s my business. Sheesh.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:49:45 +0000

SL getting shut down?

this is bad, how?

By: Neo Citizen

Neo Citizen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:41:48 +0000

That said, gambling is still illegal in most places, and the interpretation of “illegal gambling” according to the original law uses the laws intended to apply to brick and mortar establishments as to whether or not gambling at any particular site is illegal. So for the most part, this bill would really do nothing to assuage that. If gambling is illegal in Ohio, then it’s illegal in Ohio whether you use the Internet for it or not. This works because it’s based on a physical plot of dirt with physical, definable boundaries, within the borders of a particular region under the influence of a particular government. As soon as Congress finally figures out that the Internet is not an unseen country over which they have final jurisdiction, everything will improve.

By: Neo Citizen

Neo Citizen — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:36:13 +0000

I find myself in the remarkable and creepy position of agreeing with IntLibber here. Government regulation of the Internet is a combination of dangerous and bumble-fuck stupid. Given that the Internet doesn’t have any more rigidly defined boundaries than the atmosphere does, attempts to regulate monetary transactions using the fact that they’re taking place over the Internet as a basic tenet is an enormous waste of everyone’s time, money and attention.

By: IntLibber Brautigan

IntLibber Brautigan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:35:39 +0000

Hold up folks, this is merely a House Resolution. You need an identical or similar bill to be passed by the Senate (and then any discrepancies resolved in committee), then get it signed by the president. So online gambling isn’t legalized YET, but it is making headway. Now that it’s passed the House, everybody who wants this bill to pass the Senate should send a message to their senators, as well as to Pres. Bush. You can do so via this link:

http://www.capwiz.com/freedomworks/issues/alert/?alertid=11926626

By: dominick

dominick — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:42:18 +0000

@Aled

Not anymore!

Right, Lindens? ONLINE GAMBLING IS LEGAL IN THE US! (except sports betting)

So when do the game lot owners get to open poker tables and slot machines again? Hrm?