Always the same old tiring "this has always been possible before in some remotely similar fashion hence we should not criticise anything ever again" argument.

You could intuitively think it's just a difference of degree, but it's more akin to a difference of kind. Same for a nuke vs a spear, both are weapons, no one argues they're similar enough that we can treat them the same way

Yes, I'm so over this argument. It can literally be made for anything, and it is!

At the end of the day we're not performing war by poking other people with long sticks and we're not getting the word out by sending out a carrier pigeon.

Methods and medium matters.