The crackdown on illicit gambling operators in the Netherlands continues, with two lawmakers applying pressure on Google.
Mikal Tseggai of the Dutch Labor Party and Willem Koops of the New Social Contract Party filed a motion requesting that the big tech giant should take preventative steps so that ads from unlicensed remote operators are not visible to Dutch residents when using Google search.
“The House of Representatives heard the deliberation…requesting the government to include a ban on advertising and making gambling websites findable in search engines in the new gambling law, unless the Gambling Authority (Kansspelautoriteit) has exceptionally certified a provider as a reliable organisation, the so-called whitelisting, on the basis of a careful review.”
