Poland’s online gambling blacklist has been upheld by a local court as permissible under the country’s gambling laws.

Last week, Polish media outlet Gazeta Prawna reported that the Provincial Administrative Court had upheld the Ministry of Finance’s right to compile and publish a list of online gambling domains deemed to be serving the country’s gamblers without local permission.

The blacklist had been challenged by a number of unspecified international online gambling operators who argued that the Ministry had no right to besmirch their good names by adding their domains to the blacklist without a court order.

Polish internet service providers are compelled to block local punters’ access to the offending domains, something even the Polish ombudsman believed represented “a serious risk to freedom of speech and access to information.”