Comment on Spotify caught hosting hundreds of fake podcasts that advertise selling drugs

• pineapplepizza@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Legal drugs should not be advertised either. Drugs or other treatments should be prescribed by a doctor based on a review of the actual symptoms and side effects to the patient. A drug advertisement will generally tell you the key words to tell the doctor and may be missing other factors.

  I have symptoms C, L and Q. What treatment plan will be best. Vs. I want drug X because I have symptoms X Y and Z.

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  • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean I think there’s nothing wrong with advertising OTC meds, which is also legal here. Might sometimes let you know about a product you didn’t know existed at all, common ones being gas relief drugs and joint pain creams.

    Advertising prescription meds is just weird, feels very wrong, and I don’t understand how some countries don’t ban it.

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  • workerONE@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yes, I agree. And based on your belief, if you said you are absolutely destroyed that people were watching network television when pharmaceutical companies were advertising on those channels, I would think that that’s an overreaction. If you said that the viewers just didn’t care about other people’s well-being or about society, I would also disagree with that conclusion.

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