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Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by ceejayoz on Friday January 31, 2025 @04:30PM (#42892330)
> In most cases we’re talking about filling out an anonymous form to get prescription medication.

Best of luck shipping pills to "nobody".

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by vasco on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:29PM (#42893685)
How is that hard? You just need an address, doesn't even have to be yours.
Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by ceejayoz on Friday January 31, 2025 @06:51PM (#42893912)
And a payment method and/or insurance details

And you have to pick it up.

If my address was listed next to my posts on Reddit, I would not feel super anonymous.

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by vasco on Friday January 31, 2025 @07:26PM (#42894229)
I'm not in the US and familiar with this but your comment seemed too different from the other guy's so I went to check.

One of the first results in Google is https://www.plancpills.org/abortion-pill/california#pharmaci...

Listed there I checked some of their recommended stores. The first that I clicked accept Bitcoin payment and require no insurance details (medside24). It does look like it's possible to do this fully anonymous without much hassle. I have no problem with that by the way.

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by xethos on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:43AM (#42897900)
Oh good, an unalterable ledger stating the wallet associated with you paid for an abortion medication. Good thing the US is in a social headspace where none of us believe that that will be made retroactively illegal.

Bitcoin is absolutely not anonymous. To believe otherwise is a grave error.

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by vasco on Saturday February 01, 2025 @06:21PM (#42903614)
You can't make an anonymous payment with crypto you got a skill issue
Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by Amezarak on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:24PM (#42894667)
Payment methods are often things like Cashapp or BTC.
Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by Amezarak on Friday January 31, 2025 @08:21PM (#42894648)
People buy highly illegal drugs on the Internet all the time. Yes, most people regard an address as sufficiently anonymous, and either way, it's obviously not meaningfully doctor-supervised if a possibly-imaginary doctor never sees anything but an internet form you filled out.

Again, I am not saying things should be this way, but we're talking about black/grey market prescription drug suppliers mailing prescription drugs to people pseudonymously/anonymously, usually/sometimes in violation of US law and almost certainly nearly always in violation of the FB rules I posted above.

If this was literally any other prescription drug, nobody would find this result surprising.

NB: In contradiction to one of your downthread posts, very few of these places are taking insurance information. (Maybe even "none", but I am willing to believe someone does.) Usually one of their selling points is that it is "private". The article for example cites Aid Access, which does not. Neither do any of the sites in the downstream commenter I clicked on. I encourage you to actually look at these sites and see how easy it is. I am not saying that it is a bad thing, but clearly it is not aboveboard.

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by ceejayoz on Saturday February 01, 2025 @07:57AM (#42897956)
I would encourage you to check out the actual affected accounts from the article, which are listed.

> The Instagram account of Hey Jane, another abortion pill provider, was recently invisible in Instagram search, said Rebecca Davis, who leads marketing at Hey Jane.

https://www.heyjane.com/

Takes government insurance. Telehealth appointment.

> The Instagram accounts of other abortion pill providers, including Women Help Women and Just the Pill, were also suspended in recent days.

https://justthepill.com/

Telehealth, looking to take Medicaid. Specific states only, presumably due to it being properly regulated.

They’re going after the prescribing docs now. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr8jv2yjz9o

Re:Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Prov... by Amezarak on Saturday February 01, 2025 @01:43PM (#42900910)
I did, as I said, I went through Aid Access. I checked some of the others as well.

> Telehealth, looking to take Medicaid.

"Looking to take Medicaid" is a strange way of saying they currently do not accept any form of insurance.

Hey Jane is the only one I have seen thus far. And of course, there's a reason why they also accept eg. Cashapp rather than just taking CC/debit cards - they expect most of their customers will not want them to have any actual information on them.

And again, any prescription med promotion, including 100 legit prescription meds, require some byzantine bureaucratic process with FB themselves - not just being legal or de facto legal.