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Estonian government starts blocking foreign gambling sites (wikipedia.org)
1 point by jkaljundi on March 10, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Full list of the blocked sites includes Pokerstars, Partypoker etc: http://f.postimees.ee/f/2010/03/10/329436t55hf931.jpg

By using DNS-based domain blocking, of course our lovely government also blocks all non-monetary gambling and casual games on those 175 sites. So it's not gambling, that's prohibited, but also content. What's worse, besides licensed in Estonia, the demand is also for them to have servers physically in Estonia.

Of course it's no surprise that before this blocking an internet gambling license was issued to one local casino, which started their site just now.




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