Tie The Internet Down Sport
The Australian federal government has voted to implement compulsory internet filtering to block overseas content that they deem might be harmful to the nation’s youth.
The act which will be introduced in the next session of the Australian parliament and is primarily aimed at blocking perverted, obscene and illegal information contained a list of URL’s that surprisingly contained almost every single major poker site.
Although its believed most ISP’s won’t implement the ban on gambling sites the government is offering them grants to do so and along with plans to spend $125.8 million over four years on several measures to strengthen cyber safety, including the filter one wonders what the long term future for Australian poker players looks like.
ABC news story here:
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