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The question is whether you should give a shit.

When the feds sneak into your business, steal your records and lie about it, then lock you up for competing with someone with more money and power than you, will you give a shit then? Or will you cop to something you didn't do to avoid being charged with something worse that you also didn't do?

Will you get a judge who sits on the board of directors of your largest regional competitor?

If no federal law prohibits selling unaccredited degrees, and the FTC doesn't consider it a fraudulent business practice, why is anyone enjoying a Club Fed vacation for doing it?

Personally, I think selling mutant lab pigs to the unsuspecting public for food, or getting paid at taxpayer expense for something you've already been paid once before to do, or making violent death threats, or impersonating federal agents, all deserve a lot more time in the pokey than selling unaccredited degrees. If the results are otherwise you really ought to give a shit.

Honestly, I do NOT think people can successfully defend BOTH the "freedom in academia" item AND degree mills. You know, it all started with making excuses for one State using incendiary bombs on civilians for the "good" reason, and ended up making excuses for burglars, rapists and murderers.
By mixing DETC schools, "real" unaccredited schools and degree-by-cheque schools AND by making the same excuses for all, none is well served.
It's like mixing WACO with a gang of thugs preparing crack in a basement and making excuses based on civil rights...
Take my favorite mill, the Sorbon franchise...I think I documented enough how they are making a fool of all of us...remember how the "law" authorizing them was just a law mandating the conversion into the euro currency?
Do I advocate sending them to the gallows?
No.
I don't care...they are like the man selling herbal viagra or that magic forex scheme of the wealthy...
But I don't think it serves DETC or "real" unaccredited schools to mix them all together.
People won't be able to see the difference.