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.
About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health researcher, author and award-winning journalist with a mission to teach personal and planetary health to the public He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an independent journalist with strong ethics who does not get paid to write articles about any product or company. In mid 2010, Adams produced NaturalNews.TV, a natural health video sharing website offering user-generated videos on nutrition, green living, fitness and more. He's also the founder of a well known HTML email software company whose 'Email Marketing Director' software currently runs the NaturalNews subscription database. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.
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