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iMEGA vs. Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement Division
 May 7, 2009, 8:18 am (2 years ago)The Interactive Media Entertainment & Gaming Association (iMEGA) has made a swift move to follow up its disapproval of a challenge by Minnesota enforcement officials to censor the Internet via ISP blocks, writing to the Internet Service Providers concerned and suggesting them that they are not required to obey the state’s requests.
Minnesota’s Alcohol & Gambling Enforcement Division, directed by John Willems, produced some uproar at the beginning of this week by requesting ISPs to prohibit a list of more than 200 randomly chosen online gambling websites located outside the USA.
iMEGA’s letter emphasized the state agency’s mistake applying a federal regulation. The Wire Act of 1961 (18 USC 1084) – as the base for releasing an rule to reject Minnesota residents from freely accessing the websites, noting amongst other matters that the list had sites that did not allow business from US residents, and some that were not in business anymore.
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