Thai Government Cracks Down on Online Gambling: Over 25,000 Websites Blocked

[webfact]

 

National—On March 31st, 2024, Ms. Kanika Aunjit, the deputy government spokeswoman, stated to the public regarding a government policy to tackle online gambling websites as major economic crimes.

According to the deputy government spokeswoman, Thai Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin realized the issues of online gambling as economic crimes. The Thai Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) gave importance to investigating, suspending, restricting, and blocking online gambling websites nationwide.

 

The cybercrimes caused widespread damage including identity theft, youth access, and damages to both Thai economy and society.

 

By Kittisak Phalaharn

 

Full story: THE PATTAYA NEWS 2024-04-01

 

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[ezzra]

I had a bet the other day that the Thai government will do that...

[brianthainess]

WHERE is BIG JOKE today April the 1st?

[proton]

Wants to open casinos but crackdown on online gambling. So not against gambling then, they just want to be the one raking in the profits, a monopoly on misery and addiction.

[ChaiyaTH]

Means absolutely nothing, the websites are essentially nothing more than landing pages with unique refferal codes for the people promoting it anyway. The actual casino things just keep running, all they have to do is use some new IP addresses and it's back online. Same for the 'websites' by just registering another domain name. 

 

The fact they took down so many, if that is not just another lie as well, means there are hundreds of thousands left online.

Edited April 1 by ChaiyaTH

[hotchilli]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

On March 31st, 2024, Ms. Kanika Aunjit, the deputy government spokeswoman, stated to the public regarding a government policy to tackle online gambling websites as major economic crimes.

Bit of a hot potato at the moment... by the way... where's Big Joke at the moment?

[hkt83100]

3 hours ago, hotchilli said:

where's Big Joke at the moment?

On holiday?

[hotchilli]

11 hours ago, hkt83100 said:

On holiday?

If he's waiting for this to blow over he could be gone for some time