Government will try to tame the wild Web

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Originally Posted by tigermom

I wonder, won't it be relatively easy to control web publishers within your country (once you have them identified that is), but harder to do anything about your people surfing shit provided by other countries. What I mean is, the gambling sites will just have to move offshores to some nice accommodating island. Most of them are already there, aren't they?

The problem is they want to put a system in place that effectively will prevent you from accessing that offshore casino site because your 'passport' will identify you as coming from a region where online gambling is illegal. They want to be able to control what you can and can not access on the net.