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FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

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249 points jaboutboul | 10 comments | 13 Nov 24 21:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source | bottom
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neilv ◴[13 Nov 24 22:41 UTC] No.42131010[source]▶
> "This is obvious political retribution by the outgoing administration against Polymarket for providing a market that correctly called the 2024 presidential election," a Polymarket spokesperson tells Axios.

When I saw that statement, from a company spokesperson, it was striking.

Is it now respectable and advisable for a corporation to make official statements like this?

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ronsor ◴[13 Nov 24 22:44 UTC] No.42131037[source]▶
Corporations have been making these kinds of statements for almost the past decade.
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1. PittleyDunkin ◴[13 Nov 24 22:58 UTC] No.42131151[source]▶
Have corporations ever not played the "aggrieved victim" card?
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2. ronsor ◴[13 Nov 24 22:59 UTC] No.42131159[source]▶
The social/political appeal part is the new part. Companies have always released "we did nothing wrong" statements.
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3. ethagnawl ◴[13 Nov 24 23:51 UTC] No.42131548[source]▶
Yeah, the reflexive accusations of "witch hunts" and "crooked hit jobs" are a recent development. Their lineage is obvious and ... I guess you can't blame them because they (somehow) play with a significant percentage of the population.
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4. cj ◴[14 Nov 24 00:50 UTC] No.42131944{3}[source]▶
Blaming the incident on “political retribution” (their words) implies that the US government is corrupt.

Such a weird thing to blame it on.

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5. jpadkins ◴[14 Nov 24 01:02 UTC] No.42132029{4}[source]▶
why? Is the US gov immune from corruption?
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6. jpadkins ◴[14 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42137508{6}[source]▶
Serious answer: I don't know, but we shouldn't rush to judge until all the facts come out. All we know is they did a raid on the CEO home (not the business?) and the CEO claimed politics is involved.

I sincerely hope Congress performs their duty of oversight on the FBI well, so we can learn the truth of the matter. Overt politicization of federal law enforcement is a scary development.

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7. cpr ◴[14 Nov 24 17:51 UTC] No.42138931{4}[source]▶
Are you joking?

The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world, if you multiple corruption times power.

And I love my country (USA), but just hate what the government has become over the past 60-80 years.

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8. xcrunner529 ◴[14 Nov 24 22:28 UTC] No.42141889{7}[source]▶
What evidence do you have of that being the case?
9. hulitu ◴[18 Nov 24 16:00 UTC] No.42173631{4}[source]▶
> Such a weird thing to blame it on.

Yeah, should't be weird, should be obvious. (lobby, insider trading, etc)

10. hulitu ◴[18 Nov 24 16:03 UTC] No.42173668{5}[source]▶
> The current US government is the most corrupt entity in the history of the world

Current ? "Mark Twain: 'There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress'"