US Open Tennis Official Admits People Want to Gamble Online

Larry Bonfante, CIO of the US Tennis Association (USTA), installed an easy to use filtering software to block out online gambling sites within his network at the US Open last year and to his surprise he ended up blocking more than 17,000 hits meant to view online gambling sites.

"What the rationale there was for all this, we don't know," Bonfante said. Although, we can assume that the rationale is that people want to bet on tennis matches.

The findings from this action by Bonfante and his USTA prove a couple things that United States lawmakers must be made aware of. The first thing, but probably not the most important thing to US lawmakers, is that the people actually want to be allowed to gamble online. But lawmakers may say, "it doesn't matter, because online gambling can harm children and families."

Well, Bonfante seemed very pleased with his online gambling filtering software. "We just didn't want people to have access to known gambling sites, so we bolted it down," Bonfante said. He also added that it was pretty easy since the iPrism Web Filter software was so easy to install.

Opponents to the legalization and regulation of online casinos in the US have said that the web is not sophisticated enough to keep children safe, but the new software that Bonfante used seemed to do such a good job that the CIO called his event "squeaky clean".

December 1, 2008
Posted By Larry Rutherford
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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