In my opinion, there is a difference between receiving a payment directly from a casino's address or receiving a coin that in the past has been withdrawn from a casino.
The former is normal business procedure: some businesses are simply not allowed to receive a payment from a casino, be it in crypto or fiat. That's nothing new.
Yup, but im also asking myself if there’s a possibility for businesses to go against this legally. It could be argued that they can’t really link addresses to specific types of businesses themselves, so maybe there’s some possibilities to get similar statuses to cash businesses.
Of course they aren't achieving anything in terms of 'protecting' people or anything like that. My suspicion is honestly that these businesses are routinely stealing some people's funds. Look back at PayPal: in the beginning, they stole customers' money by closing their accounts at will, too. Nowadays it's well known that they went specifically after smaller accounts because they knew people wouldn't bother reporting it or pursuing the issue any further for a few bucks. But do that to hundreds of thousands of accounts and you got yourself some nice cash to work with.
Really good point, with all these factors there must be a way to make a case against the legitimacy of all these measures. Would love to hear some lawyers opinion about this. Im also wondering why companies are just complying instead of making some cases themselves.