ISPs Blocking Gambling Related sites in the USA

**dominique** · 7th March 2006, 04:31 PM

I don't think the proposed law will pass in its present shape either. Lots of people are very worried this time around though.

However that may be, the fact remains that there are people trying to pass a law like it year after year after year, and some get pretty close to passing.

So it is still very imortant to let representatives know that their constituents do not appreciate these bills, and they do not appreciate having their freedoms curtailed in such a manner and that prohibition and censorship are not what the US stands for.

**sdaddy** · 7th March 2006, 05:20 PM

To summarize, yesterday I and another Adelphia PA customer reported not being able to download casino software from Bellerock Gaming sites. Another member on a different ISP was able to download their software, however. Today, I tried my work ISP (not Adelphia) and can also download it.

Not sure what's going on here yet. I'll try to find out.

**Casinomeister** · 8th March 2006, 11:12 PM

Okay,

I've gone through this thread and moved all of the reference postings for defeating H.R. 4777, the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act here.

http://www.casinomeister.com/forums/...ition-act.html

I left behind the ISP blocking stuff since it was pretty much a separate (but related) topic. I felt that another thread needed to be made to bring this material together. I also left in this thread the APCW meltdown, US constitution debate, and anything else that doesn't apply directly to contacting US representatives. If you have more information that is directly related to the bill, please post it in the above mentioned thread. Thanks!

**Pinababy69** · 8th March 2006, 11:22 PM

Excellent!!

**amandajm** · 20th March 2006, 05:46 PM

Comcast Blocking Gaming Sites?

Anyone here have comcast? I just experienced an unusual outage, I got kicked out of a poker tourny to what I thought was a loss of connection. Thing is that when I restarted my machine I found out that my outage was just related to gaming related content.

I couldn't reload my poker room, I couldn't visit my own site, G911, MajorWager, Bodog, Pinnacle, etc. I could view, Comcast, Ebay, Yahoo, MSN, etc. Anyone else experience this?

**managra** · 21st March 2006, 01:26 AM

don't have comcast. Amandajm, do us all a favor and contact comcast to find out the reason for this odd "outage".

**Cynthia777** · 21st March 2006, 01:28 AM

I have Comcast, but I haven't had any problem accessing these sites

**paul02085** · 21st March 2006, 02:11 AM

i have comcast also, no problems.

**amandajm** · 21st March 2006, 03:29 AM

Originally Posted by managra

don't have comcast. Amandajm, do us all a favor and contact comcast to find out the reason for this odd "outage".

I would if I thought it would help any. The poster at G911 had as much reason to pass on such misinformation as the Prof did.

I will not partake in poohpoohing the word of the prof or Mccash on the word of some isp provider employee.

It stands to reason in my book. If the firms are testing a filter, they ain't going to admit it by definition.

**Webzcas** · 21st March 2006, 09:14 AM

Originally Posted by amandajm

I would if I thought it would help any. The poster at G911 had as much reason to pass on such misinformation as the Prof did.

I will not partake in poohpoohing the word of the prof or Mccash on the word of some isp provider employee.

It stands to reason in my book. If the firms are testing a filter, they ain't going to admit it by definition.

Sure of course they are not going to. However and this is what people tend to forget. Outages do occur and whilst the incident the other week seemingly only took out gaming sites, this was coincidental. It has been confirmed that it was down to a major outage experienced by a Canadian ISP.

The day the US Federal Govt actively starts forcing US ISP's to filter out any sites with gambling related content is a long long way away if at all.