It is just humiliation ritual at this point. They can take any little thing that gives you any little means of independence, down to the most petty shit you can imagine, and force us to defend that thing against goons and npcs in the public square like cats chasing a laser pointer.

The name of the thing is written into the Death Note and the gayest Yagami of all universes is already penning the next mundane thing into Note while we are still having "we should not let the government straight up ban the thing" discussions like there was ever any question about what will end up happening, or why.

The only REAL question is "now?" and if we are looking to someone else to say "Yes, now" the answer you will get is "no", always, no matter what. We keep asking others til we expect nothing at all, ever. We expect it to be solved by others, and we expect nothing from others, and so "no" blurs as well as possible from "not now" into "no, never", in an exploitation of our sloth and cowardice. There are solutions to this, overrides... which is why potential leaders are neurotically extracted from our library of cultural resources like bugs from under the skin of a spun out methhead.