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mpalmer | on: Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
Do you have a positive defense of betting markets? You're spraying defensive whataboutism all over this thread and lowering the discourse.

> Prediction Markets you don't have to participate, so no harm done.

Harm: https://www.npr.org/2025/11/13/nx-s1-5605561/college-athlete...

Harm: https://militarnyi.com/en/news/in-november-an-isw-analyst-ma...

Harm: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/05/prediction-markets-merkley-b...

colesantiago | parent
Why did you send in an article that was completely irrelevant that has nothing to do with prediction markets?

What you're showing me is a death threat, which has existed for time in humans.

Betting markets of all kinds have existed for a long time and haven't been banned.

Banning on particular betting market prediction markets altogether and pushing it underground would make things far worse.

zbentley | root | parent
Many kinds of betting markets are or were banned all over the world. The sky didn’t fall, and what underground markets existed didn’t lead to huge gang wars or whatever.

Given that the article is discussing some of the bad behavior typically associated with dark markets (death threats, extortion, fixing) happening in the light, what makes you think that banning them would make things worse?