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In addition to the DOJ having DDOS attack by Anon, Anon has hacked the FBI website:

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Department of Justice taken down by Anonymous DDOS Attack in retaliation for the DOJ shutdown of file sharing site Megaupload.com.
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People across the internet have been protesting SOPA. Regardless of whether SOPA passes or not, the US government shuts down sites without due process for the purpose of stifling competition for competitors of mega corporations.

This past April the DOJ shut down Pokerstars and Full Tilt Poker for the purpose of driving out online competition for Caesars Entertainment and Wynn, and the NFL. The DOJ would later reverse their decision on the UIGEA directly after the sale of Full Tilt Poker to Bernard Tapie. I had stated this would be reversed when Caesars had all their ducks in a row.

For all I know Anon is the DOJ and are attempting to create anarchy on the NET in order to cause a cry out from the people to pass more regulations like SOPA?

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How will the Wikipedia Blackout effect poker and poker sites in general? It’s a possibility that poker blogs, poker strategy, and sits that contain poker bios will receive an influx of traffic because of the Wikipedia Blackout. Poker fans will be Googling poker pros like they normally do but will not find the content on Wikipedia as they normally would. Wikipedia ranks one or page one for many poker bios and poker terms in general. When fans cannot get the info, they may go down to the next site, thus increasing the traffic. Google ranks Wikipedia high for many terms because of the links coming in and the fact that there are no ads. Google loves when sites don’t have advertising unless they are google ads of course.

The US government has in a sense already blacked out poker from the internet. On April 16th, the DOJ seized the domain names of several leading poker sites who do not even operate from the USA. They did this based on laws that were passed in the middle of the night and attached to a port security bill and that did not even apply to online poker.

I’m happy that Google and Wikipedia oppose the blackout, although I would like to ad that Google has acted just how these movie and record companies act. They limit the growth of the internet by punishing sites who use alternatives to Google. They have a monopoly on search of the internet (as every webmaster knows by looking at their stats).

To conclude I’d like to say that I applaud the efforts of Wikipedia and suggest a blackout of Google if they continue their monopolistic practices.

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For those of you who don’t know who Jack Abramoff is, pokerbloggs.com did a well researched article comparing the seizure of poker domains to Jack Abramoff’s bribery scandal.

For the complete series of articles go here:
Domain Seizures Part 3
Domain Seizures Part 2
Domain Seizures Part 1 addendum
Domain Seizures Part 1

Check out Jack Abramoff’s recent interview here:

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