France Orders Internet Providers to Block Access to Polymarket Prediction Site
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France orders internet providers to block access to Polymarket prediction site
France Orders Internet Providers to Block Polymarket, Treating the Prediction Market as Illegal Gambling
France has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, escalating Europe’s crackdown on prediction markets. The country’s gambling regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), issued the order on July 16, classifying Polymarket as an unauthorized gambling site rather than the financial trading venue the company says it runs. The ANJ also pointed to specific integrity problems. It cited a complaint from national weather…
After blocking transactions in 2024, France now targets access even to Polymarket. A screwdriver that says a lot.
While the bets were already banned, the French authority in charge of gambling persists and signs against the platform of predictive markets Polymarket by imposing its total blocking by the operators. A decision that poses a real problem of censorship in the face of these polls of a new genre. The French authorities impose the total blocking of Polymarket - Why is this problematic ? appeared first on Cryptoast.
France blocked Polymarket after its transaction controls failed to stop 578,751 new French visitors
France's gambling regulator ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket, the crypto prediction-market platform, escalating beyond a transaction geofence that it said had been circumvented in practice. The Autorité nationale des jeux published the order on July 17, arguing that Polymarket's website promoted an unauthorized gambling offering even where the earlier restriction was meant to stop financial transactions from Franc…
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