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manganese4 writes "They've been discussed before in relation to Google, but the American Chemical Society has launched a new effort against perceived competitors. They are attempting to limit the government's ability to freely publish the results of scientific work paid for by tax dollars. The British journal Nature and the Univeristy of California reports on efforts by the ACS in attempting to shutdown a free database, PubChem, of molecular structures because it competes head to head with the fee-for-service Chemical Abstract Service. Their rationale is that the government should not spend taxpayer dollars on something private business is already doing. Luckily the government has not backed down."
Your socialist views have already led to the deaths of over 100 million people (USSR, China,Nazism,Cuba,Cambodia,Latin America).
How many have to die before the well meaning collectivists of the world take a deep breath and say "it didn't work"?
Please reconsider your views, with more compassion for people who are likely to suffer because of them.
I believe the parent has compassion - he just doesn't want to have to have his wealth redistributed to take care of everyone else. Please take your communist ideas elsewhere. This isn't the former Soviet block and socialism isn't welcome here.