Short selling futures in the uk banned.

I don't understand the blanket ban in that retail customers on binance from certain countries including the uk are banned from short selling. Why on earth can't we just have a disclaimer and pass the quiz to trade. Just disallowing leverage would make it no different than spot trading. Betting on up or down at 1x is no difference in the risk.

If people are too dumb to understand and accept the risk in crypto on spot or future it is on the trader. Smacks of a nanny state and really pisses me off these forms of control.