Barbarism: Unfree Speech; Unfree Speech; Unfree Speech. (Repeat, mit Sturm und Drang, to fade.)

Civilisation: Free Speech.

‘IMS Health Inc., a provider of market data to drugmakers, persuaded a federal appeals court to throw out Vermont’s law barring the use of information about doctors’ drug-prescribing habits in sales campaigns without their consent … [b]ecause the law seeks to “influence the prescribing conduct of doctors by restricting the speech of others - namely data miners and pharmaceutical manufacturers”’. 

First they came for the data miners, & I did not speak out, &c. 

I disapprove of your desire to pillage and commodify private medical information against the will of patients & doctors, but I will defend to the death your right to do so.