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Leaving aside X-Y problems, sometimes people just want to do things that are unethical, or are begging a question, and the right response isn't to engage with that but to contradict it. Gambling is scourge on society at these kinds of scales, and I can't agree with undercutting the UK gov't's efforts to combat it.
But we're not talking about X-Y problems (a concept in IT support and mostly inapplicable in real life) in either OP's question or my example, nor are those things unethical or begging the question.
The response is still and always to answer it. You're not IT support talking down to an "ignorant" (in reality they actually just don't care) user, you're on equal footing and you should respond.
And lol what efforts? Blocking Imgur? Handing the nation's IDs to private companies via KYC and now not even being able to browse Reddit without entering an ID to some shady American tech giant? Outsourcing defense to Palantir?
You talk about ethics, here's a freebie: The ethical thing is to oppose the UK government.
Of course, 'cause prohibition is the most bullshit, ineffective measure out there. In America, heroin's totally illegal, but in Switzerland, it's legal with substitution therapy. Who's got more societal headaches?