Ban Proposal Debate

The cluster focuses on debates about whether to ban a specific item or technology, questioning the rationale, enforcement challenges, effectiveness, and alternatives to outright prohibition.

➡️ Stable 0.6x Politics & Society
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Keywords

gov.au legislation.nsw XYZ IMO ban banned banning bans hunting specific outright enforce driving complicated

Sample Comments

JasonFruit Jul 8, 2021 View on HN

Why not outright ban it?

foobarian Feb 23, 2024 View on HN

You know what, let's ban it all! What could possibly go wrong. /s

Talanes Aug 30, 2020 View on HN

What's stopping anyone from banning all of that right now?

tempaccount420 Jul 19, 2025 View on HN

That's a weird thing to ban.

SubiculumCode Jan 8, 2024 View on HN

why? can you expand on why you think it should be banned?

canjobear Apr 15, 2021 View on HN

It's weird to me that they even considered banning it. How would you enforce that?

JRGC1 Dec 19, 2021 View on HN

simpler answer: look what happens when you ban things

aloisdg Mar 12, 2020 View on HN

Why would they want to ban them?

erikj Jul 30, 2017 View on HN

I don't think it's possible to reliably enforce this ban.

sleavey Oct 7, 2020 View on HN

What's the reason not to ban them immediately?