[conception]

Because they create tools governments will use to restrict legitimate speech and freedoms. As history has shown they do.

[falcolas]

Create and normalize. "What's one more site to denylist?"

[joosters]

...So, again, they can't be 'futile games of whack-a-mole', if they work, then?

[jmholla]

I think it's more like taking the whack-a-mole bat and going and beating up people all around the arcade.

[michaelmrose]

There are easily measures that will cause the closure of your small business if used against you personally that would not stop A drug dealer let alone all drug dealing.