[h2odragon]

Allowing cutomers and soiety at large to benefit from such data pools is obviously better than not doing so. The specific cases' details would be required to judge whether a particular collection is worthy or not.

Say racial or sexual preference DBs... good data right? really? long debate to be had there. How about something like Erowid's trip reports [1] but for all prescription medications? Lots easier to see value in that but what about those who interpret the data wrong? Apparently thats reason enough for censorship now.

look into the arguments about the privacy implications of phone books. IIRC there were court cases about the phone company charging extra for "unlisted" numbers.

[1] https://www.erowid.org/experiences/exp_front.shtml

[PaulHoule]

In the 1990s Erowid had trip reports from people who had halfway decent judgement. Today I don’t know it has been infiltrated by anti-drug crusaders or if it is really that hard to figure out that if you take a fistful of downers out of a bag you should leave the bag at home. (E.g. otherwise you find the cops go from being concerned about you to kicking you when the bag slips out of your pocket.)

[h2odragon]

Was it really that trustworthy then? How many of the flash fad "research chemicals" got reports because there was a 50kg minimum from a supplier and somebody had a bunch they needed to sell?