We have a ton of bans for a ton of stuff in a ton of countries and they seem to work.
The burden on proof is on you to prove they're all wrong.
And why would you want government control over what you can see and say?
The world is more than the US.
> And why would you want government control over what you can see and say?
Because this is not just about me, it's about society as a whole.
And humans can be horrible:
https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebo...
Let's just agree to disagree on fundamental philosophical differences here and call it a day.
For example, a government may want to circumvent encryption: if they tried to do this by requiring the SQL tables to be mauve “because that has the most RAM”, that would be ineffective; conversely if they passed a law requiring backdoors in everything, while this would be bad for many reasons, it would definitely have an effect.
1. Adults have pretty bad impulse control.
2. But kids or teenagers have even worse impulse control.
3. The prefrontal cortex, in charge of risk evaluation and decision making, matures when you're 25 years old (+/-).
4. These huge companies are built around addiction and getting network effects to set it. They have huge marketing budgets and a lot of money to lobby governments.
What's I'm saying is: good luck getting the average kid to break a habit even many adults can't. And when the human brain, on average, fails ("don't drink and drive!"), we introduce laws to fix that. Personal responsibility only takes us so far, because we're human and fallible.