I respect both the legality and the morality of it.
First, he did comply with all applicable law. No laws were broken.
Second, he did not break the spirit of the law. The law clearly allows gambling from the Isle of Man.
Third, he did not conflate the law with morality. What is the morality of a 400,000 GBP 'licensing' fee? Laws around licensing are weird. Another poster mentioned that pouring wine than liquor into a glass is illegal, but liquor then wine is fine. Not much moral sense in that reg.
Thank you. And yes, it's incredible the morally bankrupt things you see under color of law if you try getting into that business. Side story, I was once invited to be a guest of the now deposed dictator of Ghana when I casually floated to his lawyer who I met in a casino in Prague the idea of making them the next offshore gambling capital of the world. I did a little research on the country and then respectfully declined. In my view, I never broke a law or did anything immoral (since I was extremely transparent about the odds of every game and I made sure to only take adults from countries where gaming online was legal... who wanted to play, and knew the rules). And not conflating morality with legality -- while respectfully considering both -- is just a precondition to being an individual in a complicated world.
First, he did comply with all applicable law. No laws were broken.
Second, he did not break the spirit of the law. The law clearly allows gambling from the Isle of Man.
Third, he did not conflate the law with morality. What is the morality of a 400,000 GBP 'licensing' fee? Laws around licensing are weird. Another poster mentioned that pouring wine than liquor into a glass is illegal, but liquor then wine is fine. Not much moral sense in that reg.