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What's a financial transaction ban?
A financial transaction ban means preventing money from being moved to or from a particular service or entity. In this story, France previously banned French residents from making payments to Polymarket. When users found ways around this, the regulator escalated by ordering a full website block, showing how authorities tighten controls when initial measures are circumvented.
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