{"id":777017324,"date":"2024-07-17T09:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=777017324"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:04:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:04:17","slug":"acma-blocks-2-more-offshore-gambling-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-blocks-2-more-offshore-gambling-websites","title":{"rendered":"ACMA blocks 2 more offshore gambling websites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Australian regulator has blocked the sites for breaches of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Australia.-<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>The&nbsp;<strong>Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA)&nbsp;<\/strong>has issued a request for Australian internet service providers (ISPs) to<strong> block two additional gambling websites<\/strong>&nbsp;citing violations of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.&nbsp;The sites are <strong>Richard Casino<\/strong> and <strong>Wanted Win<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ACMA blocks sites that offer\u00a0<strong>unlicensed interactive gambling services<\/strong> or publish advertisements for prohibited services. Since its first request in November 2019, it has\u00a0blocked 1,011 sites. The regulator says over 220 illegal services have been withdrawn from the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACMA recently found that Kayo, a sports streaming service provided by Hubbl, has <a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-orders-hubbl-audit-after-sports-streaming-breaks-gambling-ad-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">breached gambling advertising rules<\/a> by showing 16 gambling ads outside of the permitted times during 267 live sport events. The regulator had received complaints from viewers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See also:&nbsp;<\/strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/acma-blocks-3-more-illegal-offshore-gambling-websites\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ACMA blocks 3 more illegal offshore gambling websites<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian regulator has blocked the sites for breaches of the Interactive Gambling Act 2001.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":17395,"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 mandated Australian ISPs to block two additional interactive gambling websites, Richard Casino and Wanted Win, for operating without requisite licenses under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001. This action is part of ACMA's ongoing enforcement, which has resulted in over 1,000 site blocks since 2019 and the withdrawal of over 220 illegal services from the market. Concurrently, ACMA identified Kayo, a sports streaming service, in breach of gambling advertising regulations for airing promotional content outside permitted windows during live sports events.","focusai_entities":"Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), Richard Casino, Wanted Win, Kayo, Hubbl","focusai_location":"Australia","focusai_target_profile":"regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.7), investor_analyst (0.7), journalist_researcher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.7)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"ACMA Enforcement Impact?","query":"What is the cumulative impact of ACMA's site blocking initiatives on the Australian iGaming market's GGR and NGR, particularly concerning the shift from unlicensed to licensed operators?"},{"label":"Advertising Compliance Risks?","query":"How do recent ACMA findings regarding Kayo's advertising breaches influence the broader regulatory interpretation of gambling advertising rules for media companies and sports broadcasters in Australia?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16336,156,158],"tags":[6093],"class_list":["post-777017324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australasia-news","category-regulation-news","category-slider-home","tag-acma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017324","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777017324"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777017351,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777017324\/revisions\/777017351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777017324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777017324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777017324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}