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I used to do tech support for Adelphia and as I remember, Time Warner and Comcast were buying them out (time warner in CA – comcast on east coast)..I had never heard of problems like this occuring..How long has this been going on for?
FP it started for me this morning and I was effected for about three hours. It’s no longer a problem since they switched off the filters.
Bingoadvantage I couldnt access my own sites which are hosted at 4 different data centers here in the states (California, Chicago, Florida, Colorado) so it was NOT Canada specific sites.
What’s to stop a Canadian ISP company from offering a 800 number to get to the WWW via their uncensored service?
I know dial-up sucks… but next to nothing gimme dial-up…
I hate those hypocritical, criminal, greedy, self-serviing bastards we call politicians.Quote:What’s to stop a Canadian ISP company from offering a 800 number to get to the WWW via their uncensored service?Well….
or
ENOUGH OF THIS HORSE SHIT…
I called the good congressman’s office… he was ‘unavailable’ and, I am guessing, taking a dump and no doubt using our tax $$$$$ to wipe his ass.
YOU WATCH ME folks… I am gonna get through to this sucker. We may lose eventually, but so help me gawd I will make myself heard.
Time to take the fight to them.
It wasn’t just gambling stuff this morning. I was having problems on my other non-gambling related sites and even weather.com! Everything seemed to come back online about 10:30 AM.
Now it’s just a slow day.
YOU GO J TODD!!!! I have posted a link to here on my forum I want everyone to start doing something too about this, we all have to fight!
pitboss_igg wrote:It wasn’t just gambling stuff this morning. I was having problems on my other non-gambling related sites and even weather.com! Everything seemed to come back online about 10:30 AM.Now it’s just a slow day.
Yep – I am here in Michigan, with Charter Communications
MANY websites were screwy last night.. I called to see what the issue was, and they said ALL of Michigan was “down” – well, they weren’t “down” as it was off and on.. ‘oout every other 5-10 seconds it would flip on and off… ODD, to say the least.
Ain’t democracy grand. How many in the US would advocate an online gaming ban?
Maybe this is related, maybe not. I would put nothing past the ivory tower crew who represent the masses from their mansions.
It is plausible to believe that the US Justice Department is placing the same pressure as they did 2 years ago on the Media companies and the Online Advertising Firms (like Google and Yahoo).
It is also plausible to believe that ALL ISP’s have systems that can filter. From my understanding, China is one region that is prolific at filtering websites from ISPs.
This is potentially a devastating scenario if all US based ISP’s filtered out Gambling traffic.
From a business perspective, here is my suggestion:
1) Keep doing business as usual. It is a possibility at this time, but not a certainty that the filtering will be permanent.
2) Start considering and working on other business models for other industries. Diversify your income base. That is never a bad thing.
3) Lets consider for a second the filtering yesterday morning was a permanent move across the USA. Small Online Gaming firms with a majority of US based players would shut down their operations relatively quickly. But that large ones (888, PartyPoker, Bodog, etc), would they shut down? I don’t think so. They would then target Europe and Asia, and spend most of their marketing dollars on that region.
I’ll make sure this is brought up at the Casino Affiliate Convention in Amsterdam next month. We’ll look at the scenario in detail. But, I would certainly consider this a warning of a potential future, and a HUGE wake up call for the affiliates and gaming operators.
Marc Lesnick
Conference Organizer
http://www.CasinoAffiliateConvention.com
April 9-10, 2006
AmsterdamCome live in Brazil – no worries like this down here (although it affects my customers)
ClarkePromotion wrote:Come live in Brazil – no worries like this down here (although it affects my customers)Or places like New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom.
Lands of the “Real” free …
:clapper:Not sure this is all US related. I couldn’t access Neteller from Central Europe for 2 days. Tried different computers and different connections…nothing. And then it just came back on the 1st of march…pufff…what could that have been?
Re:Neteller
I spoke with a Neteller rep yesterday and was told the outages were because they were upgrading their debit cards.
dalster44
Thank you Professor for bringing this to our attention. You have predicted this possiblity for the past few years. I believe the ISP’s do have the capablity to filter out all online gambling sites for US citizens.
Thank you Mark for your imput. I believe your right on the money with your post.
I hope the bill does not pass, but I personally am not feeling to positve this go around.
