Reply to post: Re: Interesting take on the legislation

Oz government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament

Dr Dan Holdsworth

Re: Interesting take on the legislation

This already happened once. Australia decided to get tough on internet gambling, so the various firms supplying this need to Australians simply off-shored their servers to south-east Asia, frequently with only very minimal downtime, and carried on as before.

Australia lost the hosting profits and the taxes that the gambling site operators paid, but did not otherwise impede business in the slightest.

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