Posted by S.D. Guy on April 30, 2000, at 20:45:13
In reply to Re: Internet Rx's busted, posted by Diane on April 29, 2000, at 10:12:19
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> And just as some parents cripple their children through overprotection, many politicians and bureaucrats allocate huge resources to combating increasingly smaller and smaller risks.
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> In doing so, they *infantilize* our society."Very well said.
[on soapbox]
In that article, the tactics described were rather disturbing. It sounded like 'law-enforcement' by intimidation, de facto prior restraint:
"Web sites were notified that they could be in violation of their local laws.
The groups then go back to check for compliance and to file charges against Web sites that do not take down or modify their potentially illegal claims."Could be in violation?? Potentially illegal claims??!! I guess they don't wan't their uncertainty to get in the way of charging people with crimes.
[off soapbox]For the most part, I don't think we have to worry until they start passing a bunch of new restrictive laws. Laws about prescriptions and medicine sales have been around a long time, and the 1st amendment still carries some weight (eventually) as evidenced by recent legal successes in the face of a disdainful U.S. FDA.
Then Cam said...
>...better to save one life, than let many people
>treat their own conditions. We should leave the
>treating of disease to the people who actually
>have learned about those diseases...Couldn't disagree more. How many of us here know that they are more informed about their conditions and meds (if not all the chemistry involved) than the doctors who prescribe to us? How many of us have suffered side FX and withdrawal syndromes that our physicians never warned us about?
Peace and health
poster:S.D. Guy
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