[governance] DNS filtration activated for gambling websites in Bulgaria

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Daniel Kalchev [20/06/13 13:04 +0300]:
>This is a bit extreme statement.
>
>There are few hundred ISPs operating in Bulgaria and certainly many 
>of the bigger ISPs have not received such letter and thus not even 
>aware of the "order".

There are of course other ways, such as nullrouting IP addresses / CIDRs

The vast majority of users actually do use their ISP resolvers and not
google DNS or a dnscache / pdns recursor on a linux box in their closet so
even if the move was suggested by an overpaid consultant with political
connections, it will be effective for quite a few people.

In the case of online gambling, and in some other cases I would hesitate to
draw a slippery slope relationship between filtering those and filtering
sites that affect free speech.

If there is a national law that prohibits or strictly regulates gambling,
and if a sizeable section of the gamblers in the country then start using
offshore (and online) casinos based out of costa rica, malta etc locations
where they've moved for tax reasons, a more permissive legal regime etc..
this reaction is kind of expected.

This is strongly regulated in the USA as well and any unwary CEO of a
gambling company who sets foot even for a few hours in the USA (such as
when changing planes to travel from a south american haven country to one
in europe) is liable to be arrested. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/03/raymond-bitar-full-tilt-poker-arrested_n_1646626.html

	srs

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