Web stupidity: Link Bans

[sbisson]

The US NPR (an equivalent to the BBC) is banning links to their site without permission. Hmm. I wonder if they have forgotten the definition of "public"?

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Re: Sort of...

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Again, it's a framing issue to some degree, but this stuff goes back even further than that:

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=5v3j5f%24gfm%241%40news.missouri.edu&oe=UTF8&output=gplain