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Blacklisting Online Casino Pages

Internet gamblers in Australia might find a surprise next time they go to a favored online casino gambling site – the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has released a list of banned gambling Web pages. While this is actually not new, the ACMA often sends content filtering companies and internet service providers a list of banned sites, this year ACMA had an unprecedented number of gambling Web pages on the list, in fact 800 web pages, enough that AMCA created a separate list for the online casino gambling pages that were now blacklisted.

Basically, the Australian government uses the blacklist as a way to censor unfavorable content for Australians – sites on the black range from pornography to any site suspected of criminal or illegal activity. The government uses the blacklist as a way to effectively block potentially harmful sites completely. The banned URLs are sent to the content filtering companies and all of the ISP’s and at that point the government is able to totally control what the citizens can access on the Web.

The list stems from widespread complaints about illegal gambling Web pages late last year (2007) – those complaints have finally been resolved and resulted in the newly released blacklist. When ACMA was questioned about the extensive list of more than 800 online casino and gambling related Web sites, ACMA apparently stated that the list represents "illegal gambling websites that had been identified by the federal Government as inappropriate," says an unnamed industry insider. According to ACMA, the pages are “unsuitable for public consumption.”