alt Hacker Newsit is absolutely wild to me that you would allow companies to air adverts without pre-approval.
Then when you add in the ability to advertise prescription drugs?
Well, what could go wrong?
it is absolutely wild to me that you would allow companies to air adverts without pre-approval.
Then when you add in the ability to advertise prescription drugs?
Well, what could go wrong?
... that's the tension, right? The US, for good or ill, does not "do" pre-approval for speech.
It's also nigh-impossible for a libel suit to succeed. And the government can't stop the New York Times from publishing the Pentagon Papers.
You can make strong arguments either way, but at the very least you have to acknowledge that it's not all downsides.