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France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site (www.france24.com)
submitted 1 month ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] orclev@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (20 children)

I hate how they're supporting the fiction that this isn't gambling by calling it a "prediction site". It's gambling, always has been.

[โ€“] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago

It isn't gambling because the result is determined by the actions of its users. This is called spot-fixing.

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