Right2Bet Sees
Themselves Blocked
February
9, 2010
The pro online gambling
organization Right2Bet has been getting some flack lately and it is
coming from those European countries that are not necessarily looking to
make their online gambling legal. They are finding that their videos
that they have made that are spoofs that depict the European Union
authorities as a “Renegade Referee” are being blocked. They are alleging
that the EU is “imposing random rules on innocent members of the
public.”
The online gambling advocacy group wants to see those laws that exist to
limit the rights of the people to online gambling eliminated. They say
that the videos are simply to raise awareness of what is going on in the
online gambling industry. They are focusing those videos on those
countries that are running monopolies and thus limiting the right of the
various countries to allow their residents to cross borders when online
gambling.
But the viewers that the videos are really aimed at as those that live
in the countries of Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and
Sweden are not seeing them as they are being blocked. The videos are
being listed as online gambling so they are allowed to block them. The
goal was to get one million signatures from their residents to support
freedom of choice for online gambling, but now this is going to be
difficult as they can’t see the videos to know to sign up.
The irony is not lost on the company in that the videos are showing the
fact that people are not being able to sign up for online gambling.
