From the BBC news this morning:
Gambling websites face advert ban
Sorry if this is a repost - I used the search function and couldn't find a post on this (but I suck at search!). Some sites will still be allowed to advertise but only those based in 'white list' countries (UK and EU basically). I am wondering what this means, could it be:
<ul type="square">[*] A sensible thing?[*] Protectionism?[*] More signs of the Brown administration reversing the pro-gambling measures of the Blair administration?[/list]The latter point is the most worrying - the new Brown government has already reversed the decision to build a 'super casino' and have ordered a review into the 17 other new casinos that were planned. Brown as chancellor set the online gaming tax so high that it was obvious he was deliberately discouraging online gaming firms from setting up in the UK.
Brown is personally anti-gambling (he is the son of a church of Scotland minister) and I have (probably paranoid) visions of him making it more and more difficult over the coming years to play online poker.
Any thoughts?