None of those things are banned completely nor are only harmful in society.
Both of them are regulated but it is understood that they are critical to society without which a lot of stuff won’t happen
Both of them are regulated but it is understood that they are critical to society without which a lot of stuff won’t happen
Or centuries in between where folks used to go village to village telling tales for a few coins.
Meaning there was always something kind of widespread, even if it wasn't at the scale of computer networks connected world wild.