[89295] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Mar 7 03:24:55 2006
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 08:24:29 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: tom <tier1@ncinet.de>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <023901c641be$ff9c8fc0$6f00a8c0@tigerteam2>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
actually, they -can- order it... its the delivery thats
the hard part. :) on-line gaming is handled pretty much
the same way - the tax authorities really want to know
where that loot came from ... or went to !!! :)
--bill
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 09:13:21AM +0100, tom wrote:
>
> Hi Folks across the ocean..
>
> I understand, that from an American point of view this kind of restriction
> looks strange and is against your act of freedom, however here in Europe
> gambling is a state controlled business that supports the state economy and
> in most European countries gambling outside state controlled casinos is
> simply illegal and forbidden by law.
> So I doubt, that the European Court would really rule agaist this....
> Each country has specific laws, that othewr nations do not not understand
> and we all should accept that.
> Imagine, if kids in the US would be able to order Cannabis from Online-shops
> in the Netherlands (as it is leaglized there)through mail order? Would you
> or your legislation agree to that?
>
> See..
>
> I hope you don't mind this commentary from a European...
>
> Tom
>
>
>
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] Im Auftrag von
> Owen DeLong
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. März 2006 08:54
> An: Christopher L. Morrow; Marco d'Itri
> Cc: NANOG
> Betreff: Re: Italy orders ISPs to block sites
>
>
> Singapore seems to force all of their ISPs to send all HTTP requests through
> a proxy that has a set of rules defining sites you are not allowed to visit.
>
> Owen
>
>
> --On March 7, 2006 1:48:39 AM +0000 "Christopher L. Morrow"
> <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com> wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> On Mar 06, Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> > It appears that Italy has ordered Italian ISPs to block access to a
> >> > number of Internet Gambling sites. It would be interesting to see
> >> > how the Italian ISPs are handling this, what with dynamic DNS and
> >> > all that...
> >> So far, the method officially recommended by the government entity
> >> involved with collecting the gambling fees has been to create fake
> >> zones on the caching resolvers of the large consumer ISPs.
> >
> > good thing people use dns servers other than those put up by their ISP
> > :) when last faced with this situation, State-of-PA ChildPorn Law...
> > Null routing the affected ip-addresses was the only 'good' solution :(
> >
> > -Chris
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