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This seems like something that would be effectively enforced by applying state pressure to payment networks. I know some banks just deny any transaction coded as gambling, although that could be personal moralization or chargeback risk fears, as well as actual legal rules.
If there’s some fraud factor involved (I recall at one point seeing some scheme in the US where people would buy wildly overpriced items from a “seller” where the $500 golf balls were really a $500 deposit to a betting platform) you might not even need new rules to intervene.
Hell, you could weaponize the players: if there’s a bounty on firms and people that middleman the money, you incentivize anyone who lost money to help the state slash the operators’ tentacles.
Can’t imagine the business staying afloat if they had to resort to players mailing wads of physical hundred-yuan notes to a purser every time they needed to replenish their account.
Better content.
I think this might be the new Turing Test right here: If you can’t shitpost to the level of six-sided ursines, you’re not human.
Realistically, it’s a counterprogramming game. Content farms either want to sell you something, or drive you in endless circles to make ad revenue. That inherently steers towards certain kinds of messaging, which have a distinct smell.
When that’s the competition, the audience burns out. We all have our mental or technical block lists-- this site never actually delivers ehat it promises-- and they’ll grow over time.
The content-farm only works for low stakes scenarios, where people don’t mind scrolling into an endless void. But that’s basically the web equivalent of turning on the TV and listening to the random sitcom noise while doing something else. For anything more important, the bloxklists go up and people still end up looking for real resources.