It would have gotten rid of every single one of those if the only method for their production required a tech company to invest a 8-digit sum in R&D and said tech company was threatened with litigation.
Porn companies, Facebook, Uber, ... these are just the latest companies, in a long line, for whom huge lawsuits and fortune-sized settlements are simply a line item on the expense sheet.
Are you somehow under the impression that, if a government decides to impose a fine that will financially kill the company once and for all, it is incapable of it?
Incidentally, Uber has been banned in the entire country where I live for 8+ years now.
Of course. And that kind of action would make corporations sit up.
But what a government can do, and what its politicians will do are very different things. The political backlash for going nuclear on corporations would be massive and sustained. Not even good acting corporations want that kind of thing happening.
Regarding, Uber and your country: your point makes my point stronger.
A whole country is now off limits to Uber, but on the whole, across all the countries, their aggressive behaviors has been a win for them anyway. Just another cost of business.