Perhaps there should be government controlled licenses for some technologies, like for gun ownership? Although there’s probably all sorts of ways that be circumvented. Not sure how best to control this though.

*edit wow thanks, nice to know what sort of community this is. Nothing in the responses so far have told me anything I didn’t already know, and I did point out that it would be circumvented. I don’t see any other ideas though. Maybe with that sort of negative defeatist response we’ll never even try. Fuck it right, let’s just watch the world burn. /s

Well, now a lot more people are aware of the serious consequences of defacing iconic cultural heritage, thanks to that idiot. So there’s a silver lining at least.

Bots can be deselected in settings, can’t they? Although they are selected by default.