| If you're a mob
boss, one of your primary
responsibilities is to shut off
consumer access to alternate
suppliers of your booze, or drugs,
or whatever you're selling. The FDA,
which operates like a mob boss for
the pharmaceutical industry, is
continuing to do exactly that. Their
latest move? Ordering
search engines like Yahoo and
Google to stop linking to online
pharmacy websites that sell
prescriptions to patients.
It's a gross violation of Free
Speech, of course, and it's
indicative of the Big Brother
oppression and
censorship routinely practiced
by the FDA. They want to make sure
that people can't even read online
pharmacy websites. That way, people
will be forced to buy drugs in the
U.S. at sky-high prices that are
controlled by the monopolistic
pharmaceutical industry. So the FDA
is using political pressure to
censor access to public information
and boost profits for drug
companies. Those who know how the
FDA operates are not at all
surprised by this action.
As of this writing, Google has so
far resisted the strongarm tactics
of the FDA. You can still search for
"online pharmacy" and see lots of
links to results. That's because
Google likes to protect Free Speech,
and they aren't so easily shoved
around by overzealous federal
agencies operating more like
industry
propaganda machines than industy
regulators. Hopefully, Google will
challenge the FDA's request in court
and Free Speech will override the
highly corrupt -- even criminal --
intent of the FDA. |
