A difference in today's world is that private companies are amassing data that then gets turned around to the highest bidder. The government may not have had an interest in collecting the data before but now the friction to obtaining it and the insights is basically just money, which is plenty available.

Your opinion on bannable offenses is pretty bewildering. There was a point in time when people thought it would be crazy to outlaw slavery, from your post I might think that you would not be in support of what eventually happened to that practice.