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French regulators order block of Polymarket's website (lemonde.fr)
5 points by VWWHFSfQ 11 days ago
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> The French gambling regulator said the site's continued availability constituted advertising. A ban on financial transactions to the site was already in place.

It's crazy that French "regulators" can just order ISPs to block a website without any judicial review just because the mere existence of it on the internet constitutes "advertising" to French people.

GOOD. This whole gamble on anything trend is super dangerous.