Quick quiz: What’s the fastest growing Internet category in Britain?… a) social networking b) online gambling c) porn If you answered c), you forgot to take into account the fact that half the British population is female. If you answered a) you may be one of those people who feels the need tell all...
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Just in case anyone was wondering what was happening with political efforts in US to get UIGEA repealed, on Wednesday a House Financial Services Committee (“the Committee”) hearing was held to discuss proposed new legislation. The legislation in question was Barney Frank’s H.R. 2267 (Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection, and Enforcement Act) If this...
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I came across a really interesting article in the Economist the other day discussing the Internet’s significant impact on the worldwide gambling industry. The global online casino and sports betting markets have grown exponentially since 1995. Growth of the online poker market has been even more explosive thanks in part to an accountant and...
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You didn’t have to be Nostradamus to see this one coming, and thanks to Casinomaven for bringing the news to our attention. China’s decided to turn it’s internet filtering blowtorch onto net gambling in a crackdown that, according to a Ministry of Public Security will target “major and severe cases, arrest domestic and foreign...
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It’s rare that a day goes by without some major development in the online gambling regulatory landscape in Europe. The EU consists of almost 30 Member States, all wanting to apply laws consistent with their own cultural and political agendas and understandably protect local operators in the national interest. Then you have the the...
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There’s been plenty in the news recently about internet censorship and in particular China’s unwavering ambitions of total control over the medium for it’s over 1 billion residents. Some time ago Google caved into pressure from Chinese authorities and applied widespread filters to search results served in China. It was just one of a...
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