[governance] Global trade in medicines - we have a new regulator

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

My focus here was not on spam except as an indicator of the number of bogus online pharmacies.

Ok WHO might be a viable registry for such a TLD, but I don't recall it coming out with an application to operate it, and the only governmental objection I recall was the EU.  
http://domainincite.com/11130-europe-rejects-icanns-authority-as-it-warns-of-problems-with-58-new-gtlds

--srs (iPad)

> On 21-Jul-2014, at 22:46, Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh at hserus.net>
>> One undeniable fact, unfortunately, is that the number of scam artists enga=
>> ged in selling ,education online, often without proper prescriptions, is fa=
>> r higher than the number of legitimate online medicine stores.   You might =
>> think back to the amount of spam you receive that advertises virility pills=
>> , or even controlled drugs such as steroids and narcotics.
> 
> I believe we need to move beyond this old notion that the problem with
> spam in particular is limited to the unscrupulous.
> 
> Certainly the unscrupulous are an easy target, who would defend
> sinners?
> 
> But we have created this notion that if someone is of the acceptable
> (business) class then other than some superficial and almost never
> enforced notion that they must have a business relationship with you
> they can send email etc without limit or (effectively) cost.
> 
> Meanwhile email has become almost as useless as a medium due to
> so-called "legitimate" email as unscrupulous.
> 
> I have scripts which delete almost everything commercial unless I have
> some very specific expectation of a useful message, such as an open
> business order.
> 
> I have to, I get one to two thousand messages a day.
> 
> I'm sure I'm not unique in this regard.
> 
> The current conventions (they're mostly conventions) say, for example,
> that if I have my car insured with BigCo insurance then every one of
> their 100,000 worldwide agents has legitimate access to my mail box to
> pitch life insurance, financial instruments, etc, anything really, if
> they sold toothpaste they could pitch toothpaste.
> 
> The only practical limit seems to be that each company individually
> tries to figure out how much would so annoying that I might ignore
> them entirely.
> 
> Which is of limited comfort when there are thousands and thousands of
> "legitimate" companies.
> 
> I may be a little ahead of the curve on this but I see this rising
> tide of corporations discovering exactly what motivated the
> "unscrupulous": They can send literally a billion messages per day for
> almost no incremental cost.
> 
> It's a big, complex subject but I think we will soon be due for a sea
> change in thinking regarding this entire topic.
> 
> Merely focusing on the "unscrupulous" will be insufficient as
> end-users try to sort through thousands of completely uncoordinated
> and seemingly unlimited emails from the "scrupulous".
> 
> What drives spammers is the free advertising.
> 
> But that might drive anyone. And, as we see, it does.
> 
> 
> -- 
>        -Barry Shein
> 
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