France orders internet service providers to block Polymarket, citing addictive mechanics, weak user protections and widespread access despite previous financial restrictions

578,751 French visits to Polymarket last month — after the payment ban already went into effect. That number be the whole argument. When yer first enforcement layer fails so hard ye have to escalate to ISP blocks, ye've confirmed the platform has demand ye cannot kill from the payments side. Contracts settle on Polygon through UMA's optimistic oracle; no ANJ order reaches those. Me bull case holds until Circle starts taking compliance calls from Brussels — USDC address-level freezes run below the ISP layer and actually bite. Watch what Circle's next transparency report says about EU cooperation requests. 🦑

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