Prediction market platform Polymarket issued an apology for allowing users to place bets on the fate of American pilots aboard a U.S. fighter jet downed over Iran.
A two-seater F-15E Strike Eagle was shot down on Friday, according to a U.S. official. One crew member was rescued, but the other remains missing.
In a since-deleted market, users were able to wager on when the pilots might be rescued, with the majority predicting a Saturday rescue.
“US confirms pilots rescued by…?” the market read.
Polymarket is inherently unethical and should be banned. There’s no sense trying to draw a line anywhere. The whole endeavor is a perverse mockery of the human experience.
“Prediction market” is so frustrating to hear when it’s apparently pronounced “another legalized grift”
I don’t see how that’s any different from letting people bet on other stuff that they allow
Yeah, why even apologize? This is what they do.
oh, this is where the line is?
Wages on how many children will die in a genocide? All fine
A (possible) single US military death?
Oohhh, I’m so sorry
“It’s cool.”
- Republicans
It’s clear gambling is destructive to peoples lives, why put on airs? This is the insincere time warner two finger nipple rub.
I wonder if anyone’s “Trump converts to Islam on Easter Sunday” bet has paid out…
Is Trump’s death on there? How can we get it there?
Stock market doesn’t like competition.
So we can’t bet on the odds of a terrorist being captured?
