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ToS agreements are long, convoluted, and full of confusing legal verbiage. Sentences like "Contains violence, sexual innuendo, and some nudity" are short, direct, and easy to read, if a bit vague. That's a pretty big practical difference.

See: The internet's response to Twilight or Justin Beiber. Or the book burnings and bannings of Slaughterhouse Five or Huck Finn.

Even going all the way back to the Salem witch hunts, it seems it's human nature for us to attempt to unexist anything we disagree with, don't like, or are scared of. I wish I had an answer to make that problem subside, but I'm not sure it's a solvable problem.

> People don't want clear warnings, disclaimers, or notices - they want the things they dislike to simply not exist.

They want an excuse. Being told "you should have tried harder" is not an easy pill to swallow, however truthful it may be.

Exactly.