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Quebec Government May Force ISPs To Block Gambling Websites

Posted by Soulskill on from the good-luck-on-your-saving-throw dept.

New submitter ottawan- writes: In order to drive more customers to their own online gambling website, the Quebec government and Loto-Quebec (the provincial organization in charge of gaming and lotteries) are thinking about forcing the province's ISPs to block all other online gambling websites. The list of websites to be blocked will be maintained by Loto-Quebec, and the government believes that the blocking will increase government revenue by up to $27 million (CAD) per year.

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  1. A lot of the online gambling industry is located by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A lot of the world's online gambling industry happens to be located in the province. (Porn too but that's a different story)

    Will this have an adverse effect, such as the industry leaving? Do these pay taxes to the government anyway? Many are "natives"...

    Will this really happen or just some rumors? This initiative has failure written all over it..

    Interestingly, the leader of the opposition owns the largest ISP in the province and he's quite right-wing. Not sure he's gonna go for that...

  2. not legal by BradMajors · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Doing so is illegal under WTO rules:

    http://www.wired.co.uk/news/ar...