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Can ISPs Block Gambling

The Israeli government has just announced a new plan to use ISP level blocks to keep out the illegal online casinos that have continued to access Israeli gamblers despite the fact that the pastime is illegal in Israel. Internet censorship is one of those incredibly controversial activities in the global community right now as the Western countries claim that no government has the right to block out and control their market to such an extent – that censorship of the online casinos is just one step toward more dangerous forms of censorship down the line. For the ISPs though, the censorship is a technical issue that they claim is tougher than merely adding sites to blocked list.

The Israeli government is not being very accommodating with the ISP and online casino gambling situation and the police commander is only giving the ISP companies a 48 hour deadline of compliance. The ISPs though feel that this is an unreasonable expectation that they will have the systems and controls in place to completely and thoroughly block these online casinos and questionable sites in that time frame. On the larger scale there is also a concern that the ISP level blocks will only prove a nuisance to any Israeli internet gamblers really keen on accessing the sites.

Although the ISP level blocks can take a cursory shot at blocking a set list of sites, in this case the online casinos, that is the extent of their power. Internet technology in this day and age is very sophisticated and savvy Israeli gamblers can use proxies and other re-route their IP addresses among so many other technologies to continue accessing internet gambling.