> The knee-jerk reaction is running to the government to try to make whatever you don't like illegal.

The things I advocate the government to ban are things I believe are bad for society.

I don't like ice-cream, but I don't advocate for an ice-cream ban because I don't believe ice-cream is tearing apart our society at the seams.

Dark patterns are bad for society, and prey on people's miscalculations and inefficiencies of our chemical-brains. In the same way that child labour came up because it was profitable short term, but it was decided against that it was still a bad thing for society.

The government's job is to steer society to a better place, god knows we'll take it down a bad path left unsupervised.