What makes this controversial is that most people aren't going to see on-line gambling as such a horrendous activity that the US government needs to go to such lengths to stop it. That such activity should be a crime at all is already so controversial that the governments heavy-handed means of enforcing this law makes many of us nervous.
Further, the use of such trickery is the result not of passionate seekers of justice, but ambitious federal agents and prosecutors who see a fairly easy, high-profile target. It is a bad sign of the way the machine of justice runs these days, and doesn't bode well for freedom for the US or the internet.
Further, the use of such trickery is the result not of passionate seekers of justice, but ambitious federal agents and prosecutors who see a fairly easy, high-profile target. It is a bad sign of the way the machine of justice runs these days, and doesn't bode well for freedom for the US or the internet.
Summum ius, summa injuria.