New bill violates long-standing principle: ‘Thou shall not block.’

Quebec’s Online Gambling Law Threatens Canada’s Open Web, by Michael Geist, TheTyee.ca

(…) When the measure was first announced in the budget, the government noted that its own site was not meeting revenue targets and that it believed that website blocking would generate millions in additional revenue. In fact, the government’s own working group on online gambling recommended a licensing system for all sites over blocking as the best means of protecting consumers.

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