"Ban politics at work!" But what would that even look like?

How necessary is this discussion, even?

Always feels to me like the "Should we or should we not ban political discussion at work?" debate is a little forced. It's content to fill cracks. Here's just a couple of thoughts I have around all that:

1. How could you truly ban it? Monitor Slack, Basecamp, email, and every single conversation that people have across a day? Seems like a waste of time, esp…