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An amendment to the draft law on the opening of the market of online gambling was introduced to the French Senate Commission for culture and communication, in order to give the administration the power to apply filters to gambling sites without a court order.

While initially, during the examination of the draft law in the National Assembly, the decision was that filtering non-homologated sites would be subject to a court order, the amendment wants to give ARJEL (the authority regulating online games), as it was intended initially, the power to order the blocking measures.

Hopefully, even if adopted by the Senate, the amendment might be rejected by the French Constitutional Court, that had a similar ruling in the HADOPI law.

In Denmark also, an agreement supported by the Parliament suggests blocking foreign gambling sites, while bringing a partial liberalization of the gambling market.

According to the Liberal Alliance, this agreement would infringe the freedom of speech and place Denmark at the same level as China from this point of view.

"Usually it's in China and Iran that is blocking people's access to the Internet.I wonder whether we have taken the fundamental discussion of whether these are the methods we want in Denmark" commented professor of European law Søren Friis Hansen.

Filtering online games: senator Dupont wants to risk censorship... of the law (only in French, 4.02.2010)
http://www.numerama.com/magazine/15010-filtrage-des-jeux-en-ligne-le-s...

Chinese conditions in Danish Internet? (only in Danish, 4.02.2010)
http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Politik/2010/02/04/140247.htm