Comment by addicted
10 years ago
And the equivalent Facebook solution to the drug problem would be "Hey, we don't need to do clinical trials, because some medicine is better than no medicine, since there are desperate people who are willing to accept anything right now".
You mean, like the right-to-try laws that have been passed by 25 US states, allowing doctors to prescribe drugs not yet approved by the FDA?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-try_law
You still need a different form of FDA approval possibly involving animal trials (among other things) before getting "experimental drug" status.
It's ridiculous that if I'm dying, I'm not free to use whatever experimental, theoretical, long-shot treatment that I damn well want.
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Right, because the wrong kind of Internet access could kill people.
Not really, no. But you kinda got the idea: the wrong kind of network access could kill the internet.
This is the whole net neutrality issue. No net neutrality, no internet.
Maybe in the US, where there is a duopoly for the last-mile access for a large number of markets. Highly doubt it will happen in India because of the very rich, competitive Internet access market, as TFA points out.
Worse. It could be seen as something positive and then Netflix could be more expensive.