Right. It's like saying you can't allow a plant. You can outlaw anything you want no matter how dumb it is. It doesn't mean people will comply. All it means is you created criminals.
You can’t _stop_ it. You can make it illegal in some countries. But outlawing it just means some obvious candidate countries or private actors develop it first instead.
If you can't effectively prohibit something you probably shouldn't try. Otherwise you're wasting resources and eroding goodwill towards law enforcement which will be involved in fighting something that people really want to do.
This is what I was trying to point too, and why I added the "ban it, then" argument. Because there's a considerable amount of people who operate with the "if it's not illegal, then I can do this" mindset, and there's a big intersection of this two mindsets.
At least putting a ban on it will make people think, I hope.
Your argument seems to be: why stop the little guys from doing something illegal if the big guys are doing it too? We should ideally stop them all, but it isn't surprising that the blatant examples of illegality are stopped first.
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