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Home History Games News Dictionary		Currently, China is the nation best known for their censorship of the internet, and while much attention has been paid to Australia for their current government’s attempts at installing a similar program to ‘protect’ their constituents, the two countries are by far not the only ones looking to control how citizens use the internet. For example, recent actions taken by Israeli police to order ISP providers to shut down access to online gambling sites from the inside are now being perceived as the beginning of the end of internet freedom rights in the nation. Police in Israel over the last few months have progressively gotten more annoying to internet casino operations catering to constituents in the area, as the police raids against illegal online gambling operations escalated to credit card blocks for internet casinos… and now demands are being made on ISP providers to block access to the sites entirely. So far, the companies being requested have either denied the requests made by police, or circumvented the system with requests of their own for extensions while their appropriate legal teams look into the matter, but some internet gambling industry experts are wondering if its only a matter of time before censorship becomes legal. Operators are also working to bypass limitations, by using prepaid cards with their customers, allowing payment codes to be used instead of credit card data that could be blocked. According to one report found on JC.com, at least one expert is publicly confirming the fear that it could become an all-out war against online gambling, with Gustavo Mesch of Haifa University claiming that it wouldn’t be unrealistic to think the issue could go as far as the Israeli Parliament to be resolved (Knesset). "There is a basic fear - if it starts with blocking gambling sites, where will it stop?" he asked.

08/30/2010

Online Casino Style: News
ISP Companies Bugged by Police

Currently, China is the nation best known for their censorship of the internet, and while much attention has been paid to Australia for their current government’s attempts at installing a similar program to ‘protect’ their constituents, the two countries are by far not the only ones looking to control how citizens use the internet. For example, recent actions taken by Israeli police to order ISP providers to shut down access to online gambling sites from the inside are now being perceived as the beginning of the end of internet freedom rights in the nation.

Police in Israel over the last few months have progressively gotten more annoying to internet casino operations catering to constituents in the area, as the police raids against illegal online gambling operations escalated to credit card blocks for internet casinos… and now demands are being made on ISP providers to block access to the sites entirely. So far, the companies being requested have either denied the requests made by police, or circumvented the system with requests of their own for extensions while their appropriate legal teams look into the matter, but some internet gambling industry experts are wondering if its only a matter of time before censorship becomes legal.

Operators are also working to bypass limitations, by using prepaid cards with their customers, allowing payment codes to be used instead of credit card data that could be blocked. According to one report found on JC.com, at least one expert is publicly confirming the fear that it could become an all-out war against online gambling, with Gustavo Mesch of Haifa University claiming that it wouldn’t be unrealistic to think the issue could go as far as the Israeli Parliament to be resolved (Knesset). "There is a basic fear - if it starts with blocking gambling sites, where will it stop?" he asked.