Many libertarians are against the FDA, CDC, EPA, etc. and yet those are the agencies tasked with giving people good information.
We all know that all of those organizations have been compromised. The libertarian solution is to get rid of them and allow industries to "self-regulate". That path has also led to grave failures, deaths, and destruction.
This is why I think the libertarian philosophy is wrongheaded. It is too simplistic. The constant refrain "Well that's Econ 101" or the NAP are just two examples of an unserious political philosophy.
Pure libertarianism is problematic. At the very least, because people want to be rescued from the bad decisions they made.
I’m big on giving information. I don’t have a problem with the government giving people information so they can make decisions and take on the risks they’ve decided they can handle. I’m ok if the government set up web pages on diet, exercise, healthcare, drugs, alcohol, whatever information we need. Each giving honest information.
Where, I think, it has trouble being maintained is because people aren’t really wanting to pay the price for bad decisions. They want to be saved.
It’s the idea of using government to save people, a liberal quality, is why libertarianism breaks down. People don’t like to be hit with the consequences of what they do.