I've been wondering this a lot lately: in the 2000s (10s?) there was a big deal about online gambling and it was outlawed altogether.... What happened to that?
this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
153 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
87279 readers
2843 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
Trump happened
More specifically, his Supreme Court.
Changelog: +illegal casino
A JUDGE? That will DEFINITELY stop these Companies! Especially when JUDGES are known to Give SWIFT Consequences to ANYONE who Ignores them!
It should be noted that this (obviously) will not stop kalshi or polymarket. In fact, the federal government - the CFTC in particular - is teaming up with Kalshi and suing Washington (as well as 8 OTHER STATES) to stop them from trying to regulate prediction markets. This list will undoubtedly grow as 14 states are currently attempting to curb prediction markets on the state level. The party of small government everyone!!
Also the party of states rights
There's probably a betting market on Kalshi on whether they comply or not 😂