Frankly if code is going to be used in a serious large scale project it shouldn't be the realm of hobbyists ...
Yes, exactly, but:
... and if it does somehow end up like that they should be held to same strict code as the professionals.
I'm thinking of things like dogecoin, which by all accounts was made as a joke with zero intention of catching on, but somehow became huge. The creator of dogecoin did not mean for it to end up like that, and by the time it did, it was out of his hands. Should he be held accountable for dogecoin to the same extent? I would say clearly not. But that sort of creates a loophole where anyone can make anything and pretend they just "never intended" for it to get as big as it has.
I've long said (well before AI) that we must have similar kinds of regulation for software, especially software that is used as infrastructure. This includes ~all social media, operating systems obviously, productivity software, shopping websites/apps... It's all the wild west, with so many dark patterns and predatory tactics, all of which regulation would ban. Software engineers would have to be certified and personally responsible for their design, just like civil engineers.
It would have to be balanced somehow with software freedom. I don't want to add any barriers for hobbyists and bedroom programmers just wanting to play around with code and share it. But at the same time, I see that barriers are sorely needed for everyone else.
Deliberately misinterpreting "bad representation": Darwinia, the PC game (one of the first ever non-Valve games on Steam).
As a teenager I thought it had "bad graphics" because its art style was all polygons and 2D sprites. So the game's representation on-screen was bad. See what I did there?
I don't even remember why I bought and played it at all, probably just curiosity, but it wasn't long before I fell in love with it. Within a week I switched from "this game sucks" to "I love this game".
An extension is probably not needed. JavaScript and local storage allow you to do this kind of stuff. Proton Drive and Mail accomplish this without an extension.
I don't think it's quite the same thing. Smoking has almost zero redeeming qualities. Alcohol has a lot of social value, cultural heritage, crap like that. If you're going to break the law, there are more attractive substances than tobacco.
There are other benefits too: restaurants stop having to dedicate space to smoking tables; people are far less likely to smoke in public places (like bus stops), which is already against the law but people do it anyway, if smoking is banned altogether they'd do it less.
If people are gonna smoke tobacco, I'd rather they do it in secret than out in the open. Also I think even "failed" prohibition likely reduces actual usage by a lot.
There it is.