Always have been.

In the next protest mods should allow content like porn as another way of protest.

There was a time when corporal punishment was actively encouraged - Spare the rod and spoil the child.

You need to start somewhere. Regulation will always lag behind technology. But sooner or later things will get regulated. Once a good number of people are affected by something, rules will be brought in by the people. That’s how democracy works.

These rules are never perfect. Sometimes, to make rules effective, they have to be multilayered (swiss cheese model). But that makes them too expensive to implement. So eventually things end in a compromise where cost and effectiveness balance.

That would have been a mature thing to do.