China Fighting a Losing Censorship War Against Online Casinos
Posted: January 4, 2011
Updated: October 4, 2017
For two thousand years Chinese governments struggled to isolate their citizens from outside influences that were considered harmful and corrupt.
For two thousand years Chinese governments struggled to isolate their citizens from outside influences that were considered harmful and corrupt. Long ago, Chinese emperors built the Great Wall of China and today’s rulers are trying to build the Great Firewall of China to censor internet gambling websites. China, with over 450 million internet s is fighting a lohill battle. Despite analyzing seven hundred and eighty five million websites, shutting down 60,000, including 150 online casinos, and convicting 4965 internet s, there are more Chinese internet gambling websites than in the previous year.
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Chinese government is taking Internet security issues very seriously, censoring all activities outside its control. Besides the two governments controlled lotteries, all forms of gambling is illegal in mainland China. Curiously, betting on horse races is perfectly legal in Hong Kong, and Macau recently sured Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world. Such legislative imbalance within the same country shows the internal struggle between isolationist communist hardliners and free market oriented reformers.
