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Blocking the Online Casinos

Countries that have yet to really provide solid online casino gambling legislation are coming up with some truly controversial methods for blocking the gambling sites from particular markets. For the US, the attempts to block financial transactions with the online casinos has proven largely ineffective – the gamblers just use alternative payment methods. In Australia, the notion of internet censorship is causing the entire world to look closely at the new policies that the government is considering implementing. Censorship of the internet is one of the most controversial methods that several first world countries are considering using to effectively block controversial Web sites – they include online gaming sites.

In addition to the controversy in Australia now though, it looks as though the Swedish government is considering IP blocking as well. IP blocking is mostly frowned upon by developed nations because there is a fear that IP blocking, or internet censorship, can be taken too far and thus infringe on basic civil rights. All of the controversy that IP blocking has caused in Australia though does not seem to have phased the Swedish government as they considering going down the same path as a way to not just block the foreign online casinos, but rather further protect the state monopoly.

There is very little support outside of these governments for the IP Blocking plans – most politicians and officials believe that this method of blocking the online casinos is a form of censorship against the basic principles of freedom of speech and goes against the basic democratic principles that found both of these nations.