Australian Online Gambling Ban – Blacklist Revealed

Pokershark.com.au has recently reported that the Australian Government has banned online gambling. We have seen this list and reported that gambling sites such as PokerStars, Full Tilt, Pacific Poker and many more were on this list.

In an article published by the Sydney Morning Herald it can now be confirmed that this “Blacklist” has flagged over 10,000 sites to ban. These range from a wide range of harmful material including but not limited to; child porn, online poker sites, YouTube links, regular gay and straight porn sites, Wikipedia entries, euthanasia sites, websites of fringe religions such as satanic sites, fetish sites, Christian sites and as bizarre as it sounds it also includes a QLD dentist.

The blacklist that was leaked by Wikileaks.org but that list has since been taken down. Julian Assange from Wikileaks has been reported as saying these secret censorship systems are “invariably corrupt” and referred to the Thailand Cersorship list. This list was made to stop child pornography but ended up being 1200 sites that were criticising the royal family. he also went on to say “History shows that secret censorship systems, whatever their original intent, are invariably corrupted into anti-democratic behaviour.”

The blacklist that ACMA (Australian Communications and Media Authority) has produced will be provided to makers of internet filtering software so parents can install it on their computers.

Stay tuned for more to come on this astonishing development on online gambling in Australia.