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Let’s go on a rant for just a moment. Why does one nation think that it can achieve a task that several other nations have proven is near impossible? The Malaysian government has announced plans to use the national and government banks as a way to stop illegal online casino gambling in the country. The plan sounds like it could plausibly be effective…if the US and other countries hadn’t proven that this type of legislation and action is nearly impossible to actually implement. The online casinos are rampant and invasive and the nations that have bans against internet gambling are spending millions of dollars annually in efforts to find the illegal internet gambling operations and eradicate internet gambling in the country.

The big problem is though, the internet is pervasive! Online casinos run off of the internet and the sad fact is that where there is a will there is a way. There are always going to be a handful of citizens and sites that are able to penetrate the laws and circumvent the ban. The Malaysian push to block the online casino sites at the financial transaction level seems oddly reminiscent of the currently controversial US legislation that is wholly ineffective. The banking institutions in the US are simply not up to the task and the internet gambling sites and payment processors seem to always find a way to mask the transactions through pay cards and other features.

European countries are not exempted from the “what were they thinking” discussion. Like Malaysia, various Scandinavian countries have similarly attempted to block financial transactions from the online casinos, also not taking heed of the sad lesson that the US government has taught – that this sort of policy only pushes the gaming sites underground and out of regulatory control.