Is the American accreditation system too complicated?

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It is intentionally complicated- here in the US businesses really rely on the ability to be able to mislead consumers. Think about how many less products we would have for sale if you weren't allowed to lie or mislead consumers?

I put nationally accredited for-profit colleges and the sellers of useless diet supplements in pretty much the same category. Why either of them are allowed to exist is beyond me. Well, not really, I know it's so a bunch of people can make a bunch of money off of gullible people.

Some schools offer things that people want that can't be found at "regular" schools.  And diet supplements are for people who want them.  The government doesn't need to protect us all from ourselves.  They can barely do their functions that they're supposed to do, let's not give them more power.

Plus, if a company wants to exist, all they have to do is move to another country and then sell them on the internet.  There's no possible way for the government to control everything.  Look how well they did during prohibition, or the "war on drugs."  They don't have what it takes.