Democrats launch political raid on Polymarkets, the gambling site that predicted Trump's win.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2024/11/14/bidens-fbi-raids-home-of-polymarket-ceo-after-gambling-platform-successfully-predicts-trump-victory/
As a member of the Prohibition Party, I'm against gambling, but can't help but notice anyone who wants to gamble online can. So I'm viewing this raid as purely political, because they are not aystemmatically raiding other gambling sites. Further, this one bans Americans from betting on it's platform.
I don't think they have a chance of convicting him prior to Trump taking over, so this is a last ditch effort by Kamala Authoritarians to just mindlessly F with people it doesn't like, as a intimidation tactic as precedent for future elections.
Outside the essence of gambling (it's addictive and ruins lives), it really wasn't doing something wrong- there is a First Amandment case that their bets were in their substance free speech. I can't see how it can be said the public merely seeing the betting odds is illegal. And even if people were heavily better to screw with the odds- it still doesn't involve the US Government- the gambling aspect would be potentially illegal- IF it was a american company, but we don't remotely have any laws saying you can't skew betting laws, and trying to pass a law saying this larticular form of free speech is illegal likely wouldn't pass constitutional muster. At most, the individual is a tax dodger and broke a state law on gambling, and almost certainl did it via encrypted VPN.
I wouldn't waste my time on this if I was a FBI investigator. Lots of real crime exists, especially violent crime. This is just political. I would be putting my assets towards tracking down human traffickers, rapists, cartels, serial killers long before voluntary gambling.
As a member of the Prohibition Party, I'm against gambling, but can't help but notice anyone who wants to gamble online can. So I'm viewing this raid as purely political, because they are not aystemmatically raiding other gambling sites. Further, this one bans Americans from betting on it's platform.
I don't think they have a chance of convicting him prior to Trump taking over, so this is a last ditch effort by Kamala Authoritarians to just mindlessly F with people it doesn't like, as a intimidation tactic as precedent for future elections.
Outside the essence of gambling (it's addictive and ruins lives), it really wasn't doing something wrong- there is a First Amandment case that their bets were in their substance free speech. I can't see how it can be said the public merely seeing the betting odds is illegal. And even if people were heavily better to screw with the odds- it still doesn't involve the US Government- the gambling aspect would be potentially illegal- IF it was a american company, but we don't remotely have any laws saying you can't skew betting laws, and trying to pass a law saying this larticular form of free speech is illegal likely wouldn't pass constitutional muster. At most, the individual is a tax dodger and broke a state law on gambling, and almost certainl did it via encrypted VPN.
I wouldn't waste my time on this if I was a FBI investigator. Lots of real crime exists, especially violent crime. This is just political. I would be putting my assets towards tracking down human traffickers, rapists, cartels, serial killers long before voluntary gambling.
