Regulator

Regulator
Government agencies tasked with trying to make markets work in the public interest by e.g. protecting the environment, preventing fraud etc. Often (especially in US) these are subjects of "regulatory capture" whereby they are effectively controlled by the exact same commercial groups they are nominally in charge of regulating.

 

Regulatory Agencies on Wikispooks

Wikispooks page	Logo	WWW	Description
EPA		http://www.epa.gov	Created for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment. However, it appears to be more or less captured by special interests.
Food and Drug Administration		http://www.fda.gov
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament		http://isc.independent.gov.uk	Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured.
Solicitors Regulatory Authority		http://www.sra.org.uk
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission		http://www.sec.gov	The US government's agency to regulate the financial sector, generally thought to be completely captured by the larger financial interests.

 

Examples

Page name	Description
"Independent Police Complaints Commission"	A group interested in complaints about the UK police
AHPRA	Australian health regulation agency.
William K. Black
European Medicines Agency	Issued guidance that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were only to be used in clinical trials or emergency use programs.
Financial Ombudsman Service
Thorolfur Gudnason	Chief Epidemiologist of the Icelandic Directorate of Health since 2015.
Independent Office for Police Conduct
Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament	Nominal overseer the UK's main intelligence intelligence agencies such as MI5, MI6, GCHQ, JIC, DIS. Probably completely captured.
International Maritime Organization
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency	British government regulator of pharmaceuticals.
National Nuclear Security Administration	Responsible for refurbishing US nuclear warheads
New Zealand/Broadcasting Standards Authority	New Zealand government supervision body for corporate media.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Ofcom	UK broadcasting regulator
Office for Judicial Complaints
Ofqual
Ofsted
Press Complaints Commission
June Raine	Chief Executive of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency who changed its purpose "from watchdog, to enabler."
Solicitors Regulatory Authority
Swissmedic	Swiss surveillance authority for medicines and medical devices. Most of the members have huge conflict of interest with Big Pharma
Therapeutic Goods Administration	The medicine regulatory agency most captured by Big Pharma in the world.
UK/Atomic Energy Authority

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