Israeli Court Orders ISP Blocking
By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Oct 19, 2018
Tel Aviv District Court orders blocks on three illegal online gambling sites accessing local online gamblers
Israeli police and prosecutors have been successful in applying to the Tel Aviv District Court for an injunction ordering Israeli Internet Service Providers to domain-block three online gambling websites alleged to be illegally accessing Israeli online punters.
The sites were identified as p2vbet.com, 1xbet.com and totobet777.com, according to the publication CTech.
Under Israel’s wide-ranging Powers to Prevent Offenses Through an Internet Site Law 5767-2017, ISP’s may be ordered by authorised local officials to restrict access to sites involved in ‘serious crimes,’ including publishing child pornography or terrorism-related content, promoting prostitution or selling illegal drugs…and gambling.
This could just be the beginning of a new crackdown; director of the police’s economic crime unit, Haim Wismonsky revealed that more gambling domains will be targeted going forward as the police focus more tightly on “working to expose sites that operate gambling in order to allow them to be closed.”
Freedom of the internet and other civic groups and technology experts have greeted the news of more ISP blocks with equanimity, pointing out that such measures are easy to circumvent and impractical.
Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.
We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.
His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.
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