{"id":2298,"date":"2020-01-14T09:37:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T09:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=2298"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:58:57","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T11:58:57","slug":"acma-block-gambling-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-block-gambling-sites","title":{"rendered":"ACMA to block more gambling sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Australian authority ACMA has ordered internet service providers to block nine offshore gambling sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Australia.- The Australian Communications and Media Authority (<strong><em>ACMA<\/em><\/strong>) has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block nine offshore gambling sites as the authority considers them to be illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACMA said that it received more than 79 complaints about the nine offshore gambling sites. The operators are Roo Casino, GW Casino, Wager Beat, Joe Fortune, Ignition Casino, Casino Dingo, AU Slots, Top Bet, and XBet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cACMA investigations found these services to be operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001,\u201d the ACMA said, and warned locals to withdraw funds they have with these sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ACMA will monitor at regular intervals the disruption of access to the website to ensure that it remains appropriate (that is, it is effective, responsible, as targeted as possible and is executed appropriately),\u201d the ACAM guidelines specify.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When announcing that the authority would block illegal sites back in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/acma-block-illegal-gambling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>November<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, Communications and Cyber Safety Minister Paul Fletcher said: \u201cWhile ACMA has a range of powers to protect Australians from illegal gambling services \u2013 including issuing formal warnings and seeking civil penalty orders \u2013 it can be difficult to take direct action against faceless companies with no legal presence on our shores.\u201d<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian authority ACMA has ordered internet service providers to block nine offshore gambling sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has directed internet service providers to block nine offshore gambling sites, including Roo Casino and Ignition Casino, for operating in breach of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action follows numerous complaints and aims to protect Australian consumers from illegal online gambling services. The ACMA will continuously monitor the effectiveness of these blocking orders.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communications and Media Authority, ACMA, Roo Casino, GW Casino, Wager Beat, Joe Fortune, Ignition Casino, Casino Dingo, AU Slots, Top Bet, XBet, Paul Fletcher","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.85), payments_fraud_aml (0.7), investor_analyst (0.9), gambler_consumer (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Impact on GGR?","query":"What is the estimated impact on Australia's regulated iGaming Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR) following the removal of these nine offshore operators from the market?"},{"label":"Future Enforcement?","query":"Will ACMA's successful blocking of these sites lead to an expansion of similar enforcement actions against other non-compliant offshore entities, and what are the criteria for future targets?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[160,16336,153,156,158],"tags":[6093,289,229],"class_list":["post-2298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australasia-news","category-igaming-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-acma","tag-australia","tag-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2298"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008679,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2298\/revisions\/777008679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}