Agreed but The issue isn’t IP itself, it’s that it was enforced selectively used as a weapon to shut down American businesses( not even compete), while foreign sellers faced little to no scrutiny. That’s not a free market. It’s a manipulated one, propped up by uneven bogus enforcement and corporate complicity. People got their store completely shutdown with barely any recourse or chance to compete
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That sucks, sure, but...
That's what happens after generations of capitulating to a fiat-empowered despotism.
It's also a sign of how fragile people are these days. That's, honestly, not entirely their fault until they realize that. Then it is their fault for not fixing themselves