Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

Filtering the Online Casinos

The word “filtering” in relation to the international online casino gambling industry has sparked a lot of controversy over the past several years because of the far-reaching implications that word has on internet censorship and the freedom of speech inherent in Western civilization. The Australian government mentioned plans to censor out questionable content from the Australian market via filtering programs earlier in the year and the international community revolted in outrage. One of the key objections to filtering out even the online casinos is the precedence that filtering sets for other industries.

In China, the government severely filters out a huge number of government decided “unsafe” Web sites. These sites contain everything from international news to online casino sites, and most major social networking sites. There is a growing fear that the Australian government will start by filtering out access to online casinos and questionable sites (like child pornography) and then balloon that list to include other less controversial topics. Despite the objections though, Australian Communication Minister announced that the Internet filters for gambling have already passed initial tests and are planned to go into effect in the New Year.

Objectors are numerous and fighting to stop this filtering from taking place. No matter what the nation’s stance is on online casino gambling, filtering and internet censorship is not the ideal solution. Really alarming is the fact that the government has the right to censor any sites deemed unsafe or objectionable – sites that are reported by Aussies themselves and ones that fall into an “other” category beyond the online gambling industry and even sexual sites – it makes you wonder just what will fall into this blanket “other.”