Our government needs to wake the hell up and start responding to these types of attacks in kind.
But that would be big government, something half of the electorate fight against tooth and nail.
I've long believed that there is no such thing as dark matter.
If not dark matter, what do you think of the RelMOND theory then?
Democrats would have done the same, no need to make this partisan.
Democrats also had lots of chances to ask questions and yet didn't go down this path. Now that I think about it, I never hear anyone say "Well, Republicans do it." Which doesn't mean that it doesn't happen; if people do make that statement it's so rare that I can't recall the conditions under which it happens. But I can't go a day, without reading comment sections on the internet where Republican faults are pointed out without someone saying "Democrats do it too" or "Both sides are just as bad" without any evidence, examples or anecdotes to back up that position. It's like you think that if a Republican has done it surely a Democrat has too, which may not be true. Or if Republicans are doing it often surely Democrats are doing it the same order of magnitude.
Banning it may provide more political fodder for them
And it may also hamper the speed at which lies spread.
The Anti-Vaxxers have had actual, negative consequences in the real world, unlike QAnon.
Changing how people would have voted otherwise isn't a real world consequence?
Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no guarantee of eventual success.