The explosive expansion of Internet gambling sites has led governments around the world to adopt measures destined to closely control and regulate their operations. The last country to adopt such measures is Australia, whose government pretends to oversee the operations of such sites.
The new Australian Labor government announced its intention to restrict the access to websites with pornographic content or dedicated to gambling, which has generated doubts in gambling operators about how far these measures will go. According to some Australian IT specialists, these measures could affect the development of Internet in the country.
If the Australian government finally decides to go on with this plan, it is expected that the new rules will affect online bingo operators and online bingo halls that currently exist in Australia. About this concern, those who support the plan say that only some sites previously included in a black list will be affected, and it is expected that online bingo sites will be included in such list.
This measure announced by the government of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is opposite to his electoral campaign in which he promised to speed up the access of Australians to the Internet increasing broadband connections through the country. About this, Sue Dunlevy, an IT specialist, believes that the creation of such black lists of Internet sites would have the opposite effect.
Source: MediaGambling
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