A member of the Netherlands House of Representatives has proposed an amendment to the country’s gambling legislation which would strip regulatory authority Kansspelautoriteit’s (KSA) powers to block illegal gambling websites.
The amendment has been put forward by Democrats 66 Member of Parliament Judith Swinkels and backed by her fellow party MP Kees Verhoeven. It seeks to prevent the KSA from carrying out Domain Name System (DNS) and Internet Protocol (IP) blocking on the basis that such interference [...]