{"id":631237,"date":"2026-07-18T10:53:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/french-gambling-regulator-orders-isps-to-block-polymarket\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T10:53:45","slug":"french-gambling-regulator-orders-isps-to-block-polymarket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/french-gambling-regulator-orders-isps-to-block-polymarket\/","title":{"rendered":"French gambling regulator orders ISPs to block Polymarket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-images.ctmedia.io\/media\/article-covers\/news-city-town-billboard-1-polymarket.jpg\" alt=\"French gambling regulator orders ISPs to block Polymarket\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s gambling authority has ordered the country\u2019s internet service providers to geoblock Polymarket, citing illegal gambling and market manipulation concerns.<\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Autorit\u00e9 nationale des jeux (ANJ), or the National Gambling Authority, has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket.<\/p>\n<p>Prediction websites are considered illegal gambling, the ANJ said in a Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/anj.fr\/promotion-illegal-gambling-services-blocking-polymarket-website\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulator said that Polymarket\u2019s operations are not authorized in France and that advertising unauthorized gambling sites constitutes a criminal offense with fines of up to 100,000 euros ($114,000).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/french-gambling-authority-blocks-polymarket\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s gambling authority has ordered the country\u2019s internet service providers to geoblock Polymarket, citing illegal gambling and market manipulation concerns. France\u2019s Autorit\u00e9 nationale des jeux (ANJ), or the National Gambling Authority, has ordered internet service providers to block access to Polymarket. Prediction websites are considered illegal gambling, the ANJ said in a Friday press release. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":631239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-631237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}