Whether or not profreedom makes much of a difference, and whether or not a law is passed, with the pressure that’s been applied they’ve succeeded in:
1. Preventing people from using paypal and most credit cards to gamble.
2. Prevented us from doing any offline advertising and now the 2 major online advertising sources.
So what are the next two steps?
1. Threaten webmasters who dont have 100 million dollars to back them up in court fees unlike Overture and Google. The government can make your life hell. Hell they can easily claim that you owe them an extra 300k in back taxes. I’ve had that happen to me here and there’s nothing that i can do about it. To contest it would take years of court time and would bankrupt me anyway.
2. They can request that overture and google removesany gambling related website from thier index.
Now from what i can tell the last two are a lot easier for them to do. Google and overture (inktom) would have no qualms about removing certain websites from the index. If they removed the advertising which was making money why would they even question this request?
You have to remember that the government is above the law.
Antoine