While online poker forces and their internet freedom allies continue to fight a war of attrition in Kentucky, principals in Minnesota have not just called a cease-fire — the State halting efforts to force telecom companies to block citizen access to a random assortment of gambling-ish sites — but also the potential adversaries, who met face-to-face in St. Paul last week, seem to be forming a truce, looking for ways they can work together to regulate/tax online poker, etc. within Minnesota borders:
Minn. regulators drop bid to block online gambling [Associated Press via @ppapoker]
\”We have not folded our hand,\” said Andy Skoogman, a spokesman for the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, where gambling regulators are housed. He said he expects new strategies for regulating Internet gambling to emerge.
\”The action raised awareness of the broader issue about who is policing the Internet and protecting the consumer,\” he said. \”At this point, we don\’t feel there is anybody. This is an issue that every state is going to face sooner rather than later.\”
