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How do you keep the spammers from eating you alive? i\’ve seen blogs with nothing but spam postings.

How do you keep some left wing extremist from posting racist or defamatory rhetoric? and if you cant stop them, what are you legally liabel when they do?

can viruses be posted to blogs?

I see the problem differently. Unlike trying to predict what kind of cars people want to buy, there is lots of evidence as to what sort of drugs people want. I don’t find it problematic in supporting a role for GOvt here whilst rejecting it emphatically in many other areas ofl ife.

For example, we know that a) AIDS, Malaria and TB are big big killers and also that b) research into these areas is relatively underfunded compared to, for example, baldness cures and c) that people without Malaria, AIDS and TB lead more productive lives. (Michael Kremer has a paper on this, but I forget the reference).

Thus pharma companies know there’s demand out there but they can’t meet it at an acceptable price, despite the social benefit. The Government has a role in this situation to channel some of the activity of private companies into activities that produce goods of known public benefit.

Of course, you have to accept the public good argument about vaccinations etc. but isn’t that obvious?

That’s really being put forward as a solution? Central planning?