Originally published at: Thousands of patriotic Maryland license plates unwittingly point to Philippine gambling site | Boing Boing
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“The MVA does not endorse the views or content on the current website using that URL, and is working with the agency’s IT department to identify options to resolve the current issue.”
How about a strip of electrical tape?
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I’ve still got one… Already seemed out-of-date when I got the new plate in 2015.
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Oh, say, can you see?
And raise? By the dawn’s early light.
Oh the ash tray is full,
And my highball is empty.
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That may be their best (only) option, short of giving everyone a new license plate.
It would have cost the state a few hundred dollars over the last 15 years to keep the URL, and probably a few thousand more to keep a minimal active site connected to it (or they could have just redirected it to the main state website). I’m sure that Philippine betting site is going to want a lot more than that to give up free advertising on 800K license plates.
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It’s been over 200 years, Maryland. You lost. Let it go. 
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Okay boomers- I hope you’ve learned a valuable lesson about how ephemeral URLs are, and not to put them on, say, steel things intended to last 50 years.
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I’ve seen plates with matching color (& reflective value) stickers over the county and/or state motto section with other info shown (official info; like below).
They could freshen it up if they wanted to spend the $$.
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