Globale Internet-Zensur in den USA

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

Die Vereinigten Staaten machen uns vor, wie man seine Gesetze auf
Internet-Angebote weltweit anwendet:

| US gambling laws threaten £5.5bn float
| 
| Stakes high as Americans fight shy of backing poker site
| 
| Nick Mathiason
| Sunday June 5, 2005
| The Observer
| 
| Partygaming, the Gibraltar-based owner of the world's biggest online
| poker site, may be forced to pull its £5.5 billion London float as
| fears grow about the legality of internet gambling in the United
| States.
| 
| Analysts at blue-chip US institutions who would be expected to buy
| shares in PartyGaming said this weekend they will not automatically
| back the firm and will need convincing that the US government will not
| harm the company. Online gambling is illegal in America.
| 
| The situation could force PartyGaming either to lower its target price
| or possibly pull the float altogether.
|
| [...]

<http://observer.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,1499272,00.html>

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