Excellent post from another blog about the AAP’s (American Academy of Pediatrics) lawyer’s threats to a members-only lactation email group.
http://mamapundit.com/2009/04/the-aap-isnt-really-getting-social-media/
One of the members, who happens to be a pediatrician, sent a joke press release to the list that basically said the the AAP was changing their ways and going to be ethical from then on by not taking money from the formula manufacturers as they do at the present time. The joke email basically went on to admit how unethical their behavior had been in the past and that things were changing from then on.
So wow! The majority of the people on the list responded back, “ha, ha, so funny!” Others responded, “wow, really?” forgetting what day it was and being rather more naive than the others. It was April 1st, for crying out loud!
So then the AAP gets their knickers in a twist and sics their lawyers on the email group’s founders and says they have to delete the post from the archives and delete any mention of it. I’m surprised they didn’t ask for the memberships email addresses so they could go after all of them and confiscate their computers to make sure this, what?, treasonous, deadly, horrible, what? email wasn’t allowed to exist anywhere in the world. Cause guess what? Not every post gets deleted from people’s computers. Some, that are especially helpful or even (gasp) funny might be saved. And some might even be put up on a blog or something!
Seriously, the AAP needs to get a grip.
The author of the blog above does a much better and more coherent job of explaining it and why it is so absurd.
