Restrictions on offshore gambling sites by Israeli police have been overturned this week.
A court ruled that the country’s police don’t have the authority to order online service providers to block access to offshore online gambling sites.
This follows a lawsuit by the Israel Internet Association against Israel Police who began issuing injunctions aimed at blocing access to the Victor Chandler and Stan James sites in August 2010.
YnetNews reports that the Tel Aviv Administrative Court’s Judge Michal Rubinstein ruled that while the social value of gambling sites was low, blocking access to them still amounted to curtailing freedom of speech. Rubinstein declared the injunctions invalid and ordered the police to pay the IIA’s $5,300 court costs.
