Score: Red China 18,931 versus U.S. 2,500. Blocked Web Pages

Under the Internet Gambling Prohibition Act U.S. ISPs will be required to block selected iGambling URLs. Please note that no URLs are currently blocked in the U.S. According to “An Analysis of Internet Gambling and its Policy Implications, “ a American Gambling Association 10th Anniversary White Paper Series, published May 2006, by David O. Stewart of Ropes and Gray, LLP, there are an estimated 2,500 iGambling sites that provide gambling services. Therefore, we give the U.S. a score of 2,500.

Communist China is herein given a score of 18,931, but we are confident that the U.S. will catch up. The path that the U.S. is just undertaking is well documented and researched. Communist China can be our model. The China score was based on an “Empirical Analysis of Internet Filtering in China” by Jonathan Zittrain and Benjamin Edelman of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society of the Harvard Law School. The analysis was last update in March 2003, so perhaps the U.S. will have to enact a few more draconian anti-privacy laws if it has any chance to catch up.

The Zittrain/Edelman analysis can be found at:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/filtering/china/

The Stewart White Paper can be found at:

http://www.americangaming.org/publications/10th_anniversary_series.cfm