http://disqus.com/people/1concerned1/enTue, 05 Aug 2008 01:29:35 -0000http://jackandjillpolitics.disqus.com/china_gives_media_the_backhand_media_rolls_over/#comment-1098652While China's censorship of news websites is deplorable, the U.S. is engaged in a far more restrictive, freedom-crush brand of censorship in the health industry: The U.S. FDA censors truthful descriptions of health products. Like China's government at the Olympics, the FDA has outlawed free speech of nutritional supplement companies, threatening them with fines, or even jail time for them if they don't remove all text from their website and products that seek to inform consumers about the real benefits of their products. Every government, you see, has its power base to protect, and in the US, the power base is the corporations. Threaten the corporations by telling the truth about nutritional supplements, you’re arrested or run out of the country. It happens in US daily. Why are all the effective cancer clinics South of US? Skeptics may say that China's censorship is worse because it deals with human rights violations. Could the FDA's censorship of real health information BE as bad?1concerned1Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:29:35 -0000