You’re literally describing how they did set up a block, while also saying they didn’t

If they tried to stop terrorists from making biological weapons in the same manner, the headlines would call that useless and ineffective because you're trying to stop already bad actors with something ineffective and trivially bypassed. This is no different, and shouldn't be treated any differently.

Sure, that’s still a block. A client side block is obviously a block

They're literally describing how it's not actually a block just a minor inconvenience

A block would be a bit harder to circumvent

It’s a client side block… which is of course a block