Free market is a good thing.

It's good until some unregulated electronic device creates interference that makes some poor guys pacemaker act up and kills them.

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EtienneDeLyon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

As a RF expert, I can assure you that is not possible. And basic common sense should tell you why.

It's AM radio that gets interfered with.

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kayson an hour ago | parent | next [-]

As an RF expert I can assure you that I could create a device to wirelessly interfere with a pacemaker. A pathological one, maybe, but the point remains: regulation is needed.

	▲	fluoridation 29 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The question is whether such interference could be created by a device as a by-product of its normal operation, not by a weapon that's intended to cause harm.

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kube-system an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It's not likely, but if you're an expert I'm sure you could think of a few ways it would be possible. The reason we give people with pacemakers a list of machines to avoid is definitely not to waste their time because there is no possible way any of those things could be dangerous to them.

	▲	chromacity an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I mean, more or less, we do. The NIH list includes cell phones, e-cigarettes, and headphones.

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jdiff 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Blind dogma is rarely a good thing. A free market is not a virtue or end goal in itself, but a means to other ends.

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croes 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Every freedom has limits