Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat

Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by sschueller on Sunday June 10, 2018 @05:58AM (#17277401)

There is also a vote against online gambling which is bad for net neutrality.

It was brought up by local gambling interest but sold as protecting gambling addicts.

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by hadrien01 on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:55AM (#17277546)

How is that bad for net neutrality? It would be a law, the same way child porn is illegal...

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by brainwad on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:35AM (#17277640)

ISPs will be forced to block a blacklist of gambling sites.

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by kzrdude on Sunday June 10, 2018 @07:40AM (#17277652)

That's not strictly necessary, the implementation and enforcement could be entirely different than that.

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by sschueller on Sunday June 10, 2018 @11:14AM (#17278468)

I hope so

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by sexydefinesher on Sunday June 10, 2018 @09:32AM (#17278026)

They should have presented it as the solution to removing all those pesky casino ads

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by haeffin on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:13AM (#17277441)

It was mainly sold as "prevent illegal foreign gambling sites from making a profit without paying back".

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by BigJono on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:25AM (#17277473)

Literally the exact same bullshit that just effectively banned online poker in Australia earlier this year.

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by raverbashing on Sunday June 10, 2018 @06:57AM (#17277552)

It's hard, but people will survive.

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Re:Radical Swiss financial reform campaign faces defeat by mseebach on Sunday June 10, 2018 @03:19PM (#17279735)

As human civilization progresses, we're trying to move the goal-posts up a bit from "survive".

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