[eru]

Huh? It's pretty obvious that you can influence the outcome of a sports event, if you can influence the ref or if you can get a player on one side to pretend to be less competent than she normally is.

[PlatoIsADisease]

10 years ago we'd be called conspiracy theorists.

[4ggr0]

Sports Betting Scandals have been a thing for probably almost as long as sports exist, i don't get why you think that this was a thoughtcrime 10 years ago?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_betting#Famous_betting_...

wouldn't surprise me to find out that even cavemen were manipulating outcomes of stone-throwing contests to earn some more meat.

[eru]

I think the disagreement was over whether it was likely that people threw matches like this, not whether it was possible.