Buying medicine on aliexpress (and taking it) is about the dumbest thing I have heard this week.
I hooe it will be for the rest of the week, this is fking stupid
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The EU’s executive has sent a request for information from the Chinese site as part of its investigatory powers under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The European Commission has sent a formal request for information to the Chinese e-commerce website AliExpress over the measures it takes to protect consumers from illegal products such as the sale of fake medicines online.
“The Digital Services Act is not just about hate speech, disinformation, and cyberbullying,” said Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner, in a statement.
The European Commission has also sent formal requests to TikTok, Meta and X (formerly Twitter) over the spread of disinformation and illegal or violent content.
A 2022 report from the EU Intellectual Property Office and Europol said that counterfeit pharmaceutical products had shifted from physical to online markets, with an “increasingly wide range of medicines”.
Patients in Austria and the UK were recently hospitalised with serious side effects after taking falsified weight-loss medication, with regulators warning physicians to verify the source of supply if not from legal pharmacies.
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