Too many people have a thought process that is along the lines of "[Bad thing] happens? They should make a law against that." That's the end of it, to them. They're not necessarily thinking about the Nth order effects that that their approach would have on society.
It's really the middle school teacher approach to cheating. It's also fascinating to see the sentiment difference between online gaming and remote education. Not that proctor malware isn't worse, it is, but that the arguments in this thread would have been aggressively downvoted in those other threads.
