Nothing lasts ceaselessly; that goes doubly for web areas. You’ve acquired to resume that shit on the common. About 800,000 Maryland drivers and the Maryland Motor Automobile Administration are studying that lesson the onerous means, after discovering the web site on their commemorative license plates now results in a web-based on line casino primarily based out of the Philippines.
The plates initially have been meant to recollect Maryland’s distinctive function within the Warfare of 1812. The plates have been submitted by the Warfare of 1812 Bicentennial Fee. The plates have been the default for Maryland residents beginning in 2010, and solely retired in 2016, based on WBALTV.
The Fee began a nonprofit, Star-Spangled 200 Inc., and its web site handle was included alongside the underside of the plates. However as an alternative of studying about American historical past, guests are actually redirected to globalinternational.data—a janky, bare-bones playing web site within the Philippines.
Vice Information discovered the swap over will need to have occurred someday within the final yr:
Someday throughout the final yr, www.starspangled200.org stopped telling folks about how Marylander Francis Scott Key was impressed to write down the nationwide anthem “The Star Spangled Banner” after watching British ships bombard Fort McHenry in Baltimore through the Warfare of 1812 and began as an alternative redirecting to a website referred to as globeinternational.data, through which a blinking, bikini-clad lady advertises “Philippines Finest Betting Web site, Deposit 100 Obtain 250.”
[…]Area registration info exhibits that starspangled200.org has been re-registered and transferred a handful of instances inside the previous couple of years. It isn’t precisely clear when it stopped being a web site about American historical past. The Web Archive exhibits that as lately as December 2022, the web site defined that “the younger United States was embroiled within the Warfare of 1812 and the Chesapeake Bay area felt the brunt of it.” A snapshot from at present, nevertheless, explains that “Extraordinarily lenient legal guidelines govern gaming,” within the Philippines. “It is a results of the rising reputation of playing amongst vacationers and the big on line casino resorts which have lately been constructed.”
The MVA is engaged on an answer for the issue, which impacts some 798,000 residents of the Free State. Additionally they want to make it clear the Automobile Administration has nothing to do with the playing website.