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Online Gambling in China Now a Target of Government Crackdown

China plans to crack down on the online gambling industry, including the banks and websites that support it, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement posted on its website.

The statement clears says a campaign against the industry is in their plans.

From our correspondent in Hong Kong, I got this report:

The campaign will “concentrate on investigating major and important cases of online gambling, knock out domestic and foreign groups that organize online gambling, and severely punish the criminal elements”, the statement said.

The crackdown, to be conducted between February and August, was agreed to by eight government bodies including the Supreme Court, Propaganda bureau, the Central Bank and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology.

Gambling was banned in China right after Mao took over in 1949.

Oddly enough, China runs two lotteries.

Not that this has stopped underground and illegal sites run by nefarious syndicates.

The statement said it will severly punish those who run underground banks and third-party payment platforms that provide banking services needed for gambling.

As in pornography crackdowns, website operators will also be targeted.

The move is the latest in a series of curbs on the country’s relatively free-wheeling online world, one of the few arenas for people from across China to interact in large groups, share information and criticize the government.

China has banned Google’s Youtube since March 2009, when a Tibetan exile film documenting the injuries and death of a Tibetan protestor was published on the video sharing site.

The government began blocking Twitter, Flickr and Facebook last summer.