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A Kentucky judge ruled on Thursday that all Kentucky gambling sites must block the state’s users in 30 days or their domain will be transferred to the state. The state’s governor, Steve Beshear, is the head of this move and has been pressuring officials for a ban on the gambling sites in order to support Kentucky’s legal gambling.
Judge Thomas Wingate issued a 44-page ruling in which he rejected the sites’ request to reconsider a previous ruling. The judge said in the ruling that the online gambling sites’ request, which warned of an international chaos in the industry, as unpersuasive.
“The Internet, with all its benefits and advantages to modern day commerce and life, is still not above the law,” Wingate said.
The previous ruling was issued by Judge Wingate in September and it ordered the transfer of the domain names of 141 gambling sites to the state. Attorneys who backed the sites against the state saw their “no jurisdiction” arguments get rejected. They were also ordered by Judge Wingate to reveal who they are representing in court.
However, within a month, many Kentuckians who liked spending their leisure time gambling will no longer have that possibility. The only options left are to play the state gambling lottery, or to gamble on a horse race. The difference is that the money from those two options goes to the state, while the earnings of the online gambling casinos go into the accounts of the owners.
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