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Recently we heard that the Italian government has chosen to block over 600 i-gaming sites (including high-profile ones, such as Betfair) from being accessed by Italians. All these iGaming sites are located offshore. Internet Service Providers (ISP) are doing the job, and could be heavily fined if they don't stick to the rule. This decision has been taken without asking for the right at the European Commission.

It follows the recent political debate around online gambling in the USA. Congressman Bob Goodlatte wants to introduce a bill that would block Americans from accessing offshore gaming sites (the majority), and this blocking would occur directly at the ISP level. This isn't yet passed, but it just raises a question... On which law these governments have the right to decide FOR YOU what you want to access in your private home? Where is free speech? Who has the right to DICTATE how to spend your money?

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These governments invoke the facts that they want to protect childrens to access these sites and avoid also problem gambling. The fact is, that I think it is not the real truth. Aren't these same governments that are heavily into lotteries, the lowest form of gambling, as it touches the lowest and poorest segments of worldwide populations, and on which the payouts are the lowest out there, where only 50-60 percent of the money is paid back, opposed to an average of 90 percent for casinos (land-based/online)?

My idea, in fact, is that the USA government has a problem with the $16 billion that have gone offshore in 2005 (online poker + online casinos) and could have been spent and kept in the USA with USA companies. So, they have figured out that regulating the whole thing would require lots of work (Internet is hard to regulate, OK, but not impossible, IMO), so they want to just prohibit it, simply. And they invoke children and consumer protection, where in fact they really don't care of the consumer.

I believe that problem gambling and childrens are something that online casinos need to work out. But I know that online casinos have already taken steps for avoiding childrens to access gaming sites. While the systems are still not perfect, they work for the large majority. And if the things could be regulated, it would help a lot.

You want my bet? This bill won't pass, one more time. At least I hope. But even if it passes, I predict that they will face lots more problems than they think, because blackening out an entire segment of the Internet to Americans cannot be tolerated.

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