“What citizens of a supposedly free country do with their own money from their own homes is not for the state to dictate”

I think eventually, the government will see all the potential tax dollars and work hard to regulate online gaming. If not, gaming bloggers like myself may have to consider moving overseas to escape hard time or worse, laptop confiscation and a permanent ban from the internet.

The scale is entirely and vastly different, but from a legal perspective a how-tow telling people to go hone their skills in on-line casinos (when that is illegal) is akin to gun manual telling people to go outside and shoot someone to hone their skills, or a sex guide telling people to go outside and practice on anyone who catches their eye in the street. It encourages, explicitly instructs, people to commit what’s officially a crime.

And provides much easier targets to go after…

So it’s really not all that surprising. Not as long as the law is still there forbidding on-line gambling.

The state isn’t “moving to control speaking about gambling”, unless it goes against anyone just reporting about gambling. But if the state’s complaint is about explicit instructions to people to go and break a law, that’s probably well within the state’s rights.