If online poker became illegal, could the feds do THIS???

[driller]

This is a little off topic, but I occaisionally work at a site that uses a company LAN that blocks sites related to gambling (including 2+2) among other things. They also block proxy sites, or appear to. Anyway around this?

[jaydub]

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This is a little off topic, but I occaisionally work at a site that uses a company LAN that blocks sites related to gambling (including 2+2) among other things. They also block proxy sites, or appear to. Anyway around this?

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Yes but doing so is a really good way to get fired.

[mmcd]

If they attack online poker (very unlikely) they do through the banks, not through the internet. They'll make it very difficult to get money from your bank account to a pokersite or neteller and vice-versa. Whether or not the sites could find an easy/convenient workaround would depend on exactly what restictions are put on the banks. Online poker would be screwed if every player had to mail a check or money order to the site to cash in, and recieve a check (or maybe even cash) through the mail or FedEx to cash out.

It would take a concerted federal effort to find that on-line gambling is illegal and enforce it against individual users. I was merely trying to identify some factors that would seem to make this more unlikely than it would have been 5-6 years ago.

Also, it is not so simple as to whether a law in a particular state could be applied more directly to find that on-line gambling is illegal. Enforcement is made much more difficult by the inter-state/international nature of the internet and thus the federal/state lines become very blurry and complicated.