More Poker Rooms Leave the U.S.

Well, the Kentucky case, despite giving a stay of execution to online poker room owners, has already shown results – and not for the better. Another website is exiting the Kentucky market although it is said that it will continue to accept U.S. wagers outside of the state.
It still boggles my mind that this legislation was allowed to pass to begin with, how Kentucky reserved the rights over internet domains that are operated outside of the country, let alone the state. It seems to me that if a poker room is LICENSED and regulated, that this should be enough to allow it to run to online poker players.
So where will it end as far as internet censorship? Should the hearing result in the eventual confiscation of these websites, it could open the door to a slew of other court proceedings. How is the State of Kentucky able to determine what is and what is not acceptable for internet users to access. I mean, there are a lot of other more detrimental sites that young people could be accessing that would lead to addictions.
How about sites like ebay? Tell me that there aren’t people addicted to the online garage sale – people buying vintage star trek TV trays that they have no use for simply because it was a dollar. And this sort of activity is allowed to continue, untaxed. Why is that? You can buy illegal liquor, weaponry, and a cornucopia of other unsavory items on these websites. Why isn’t this a problem?
At any rate, more and more poker rooms are closing their doors to the U.S., and if this continues, and the court finds that the Governor of Kentucky is just in his charges against these domains, we could see the end to internet gaming for the U.S.
The forfeiture hearing has been rescheduled for December 12th, so stay tuned to learn how things unfold, and whether the government can impede on our rights to gamble any further.