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by Houshalter 4414 days ago
Unfortunately it is (sometimes) difficult to force technology to comply to our arbitrary social norms. See a lot of the examples of special cases and complications in this thread. A better example is the attempts to enforce copyright law on the internet.

I don't disagree with you, I'm saying it's rarely as simple as just banning X, once technology makes X possible.