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China and US on the Same Path

The industry news has really blasted China recently because the Chinese government is really hitting hard the idea of censorship of internet at the IP and at the base computer level. The Chinese government has a firmly anti-online casino gambling stance that has stirred controversy all over the world. A new policy out of China is mandating that all new computers have filtering software in place that effectively allows the government to block online casinos. The US government, in a highly hypocritical move, sent a letter to the Chinese government protesting the new internet gambling filtering legislation as contrary to World Trade Organization of rules.

There is a moment where one can only ask…is the US government serious? The US government has almost the very same internet censorship legislation in place with the UIGEA as the offshore online casinos are blocked from the US market through financial transactions. Although the internet sites themselves are not actually blocked from the internet, US gamblers can still view the Web pages and can gamble at the sites if they can find one that will accept them, the end result is basically the same – both countries are looking to eliminate internet gambling.

The US communiqué was apparently directed at the fact that the Chinese government wants filtering software built into all of the computers that are sold in the Chinese market. The government wants to block the online casinos at a level even beyond the ISPs and the US government is concerned about the lack of personal freedoms for the Chinese people that this filtering software will enable.