Why is social media so strict about medical advice
As the scope of what is considered part of “medicine” increases, it’s becoming increasingly hard to find or ask about very simple problems on forums like Reddit. For example you aren’t allowed to even mention pain in the context of a fitness question on Reddit, otherwise you get banned. This is honestly fucking stupid because every source of pain is not some serious medical issue that ONLY a doctor can solve. Sometimes you just need a few stretches or pointers to solve it yourself. This kind of thing is not allowed to happen anymore. Not to mention how access to medical care only gets harder and is frequently just bad.
Is there any actual legal reason why Reddit is so strict on this? Are there laws or other systemic factors causing more restrictive platforms or is it cultural?
Have you seen the medical advice in the internet in the last 4 years? It range from drinking/injecting/... bleach, sidium chlorit and other chemical to useless things like pills where the chance of containing even a molecule of the promised ingridient is less than a million(known as Homepathy) to cure cancer, covid19 and many other things that exist and don't exist.
freedom of speech in some areas has been deemed "controlled" for some reason