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Originally Posted by Carth
It's no good trying to 'ban' anything, any one of us could compile a list of things 'banned' in this Country that are still being done regularly.
No matter how many times a child/young adult is warned about the dangers of doing something, there will be a certain percentage that still do it (look at deaths in water this week).
Unless we go full on 'North Korea' there isn't much we can do to stop 'bad things' on the internet without causing problems for everyone else.
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Banning "whatever" isn't about stopping something completely, it's about reducing the number of incidents of "whatever" is.
Banning drink-driving hasn't completely stopped drink-driving, but it has reduced the number of cases and the consequent mayhem caused - there were 1640 drink-driving fatalities in 1979, and 230 in 2019.
Health and Safety Laws at work haven't totally stopped deaths and injuries at work, but they have reduced the number of workplace deaths from 620 in 1974 to 124 in 2024.
Saying you can't fix everything so you shouldn't try to fix anything isn't really an optimal way of trying to progress things...