"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
They keep the sheeple occupied with things like this and they pass laws that take way our freedoms while the sheeple are looking the other way. The sheeple are about blind now so they won't need imaginary hobgoblins much longer.