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Nuances of the Fight

The Australian government has taken a controversial yet fairly simple decision to block online casinos and internet poker at the ISP level and now taken the fight to a whole new level by making it an issue of freedom and personal rights. On the one hand, there is a valid argument growing in the international market that every country has the right to choose to block internet gambling on the grounds of preserving a safe and controlled market. But the implementation and execution of this controversial “right” is what has the Aussie public simply outraged. Australian censors have equated the online casinos to pornography and crime – and that’s just going a bit over the line really.

Once the Aussie government began to announce that sites and industries outside of the online casino gambling industry were on the list it raised the hackles of citizens as well as internet freedom groups all over the world. Australia will definitely not be the only country to impose censorship and filtering bans on its market, but it just might be the first of the free societies to do so. If the planned censorship passes then Australia’s attempts to block porn and online casinos will be listed next to internet censorship in countries like Burma, China, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and Vietnam.

It’s not the banning of the online casino gambling industry that these internet freedom groups find fault with, but rather the slippery slope that comes with all censorship. The gambling industry is first, but then types of porn were added to the list, and there is a fear that political content will be next – and from there it’s a simply unacceptable level of government control and impingement on personal and societal freedoms.