Banning ${thing} only stops the honest people, which are usually the people you don't have to worry about.
Banning stuff will allow us to go after and punish the non-honest ones.
Banning stuff will make honest people do it less and therefore present less opportunities for non-honest actors to steal this valuable data (e.g. through security lapses).
There are no silver bullets, we cannot solve complex issues in one master stroke.
In a perfect World yes, we do not live in a perfect World and it is not so simple as many things testifies, drugs - they are banned - see how that works.
>Banning stuff will make honest people do it less and therefore present less opportunities for non-honest actors to steal this valuable data (e.g. through security lapses).
Reducing things and banning them to cater for the lowest denominator - Look at the history of things banned and tell me that that saw a reduction in crime as it don't - again....drugs.
> There are no silver bullets, we cannot solve complex issues in one master stroke.
Totally agree - but a poor stoke can do more harm than doing nothing, not advocating nothing but back to my first point if something appears broken then you fix it.
But I'll raise another issue with an analogy - if the internet was cars - would we allow people to drive without having a test. Yes cars can kill, but not like the internet is incapable of doing them same as we have seen. The internet and offerings have evolved and there are not restrictions beyond age (an artificial hurdle) that stop you doing what you like, oh and laws which are less clear in the quagmire of the internet as it is not in one country and country laws vary.
So unless you ban it everywhere, you are akin to sweeping it under the carper in one location and allowing free reign in others.
Let us remember that more crime has been committed and fraud via the telephone than via the use of facial recognition and old types of fraud - whilst banned/illegal - still prevail.
How did that ban on spam work out again - oh right, you got people who think, well its not in my spam folder so its not spam - this African Prince with loads of money must be legit as rules to block spam and this is not spam - that much I know and tada....a little knowledge driving on the internet strikes again.
Yes - no silver bullet - single solution, but banning things often works as a bad solution due to numerous factors - including human nature as many Number #1 music record that got banned from airplay will attest.
I understand that banning things just trigger the peole that want to legalize drugs but the topic is not about drugs or about guns.
I also would say that banning face recognition in public places is not similar to banning it in your private home or in a company that uses it on images where they have permissions to use it, what most people want is not getting tracked without permissions is more similar like I don't want second hand smoking in a public place where me and my family are but you can smoke in your home or wherever you have permissions from the others.
I can't see any survivorship bias at all!
Also, you might want to distinguish "banning common people from doing something they easily can do with local resources for their pleasure" and "banning large organizations from doing something on a global scale for profit".
They could and do punish people who take drugs, the problem is that every one takes drugs and they don't have the resources to punish everyone.
Laws are only effective if the masses agree to them, the masses don't want a surveillance state.
Pot and alcohol are both very easy to manufacture domestically where heroin is easy to transport. LSD on the other hand is simply not addictive enough.
There are stories we tell the chilodren where some people form a new community without rules because they hate rules and then one guy is a jerk and eventually they have to re-invent the rules one by one.
We are typically talking about nations and states (which aren't necessarily the same thing). You are born into it and typically normally stay within it for the majority of your life. Community is one of those words that are commonly abused these days to the point it doesn't really mean anything.
My comment was referring to real human communities, as an example in my village was introduced a garbage tax and some people were upset)including some in my family) because they did not want to pay for disposing teh garbage, the ones that burned was put to fire and the other kind was abandoned or thrown in the local river. In this case you see that sometimes new rules do not make all people happy. In case you will object because of the financial issue then there is a similar example but a few hundreds years back where a law was passed that you can shit everywhere you want and you must have a hygienic place or other law was pased and children were "forced" into schools instead of working the farms.