ralpress.org

Oh, and I forgot controlling, deluded and greedy.

Jeff Jarvis writing in The Guardian: News Corp is foolish to block linking

“Linking is not a privilege that the recipient of the link should control - any more than politicians should decide who may or may not quote them. The test is not whether the creator of the link charges (Murdoch’s newspapers will charge and they link). The test is whether the thing we are linking to is public. If it is public for one it should be public for all.”

Mr Murdoch, if you really dislike the Web to this extent, to the extent where you are comfortable negating its most fundamental and essential feature, then why don’t you do us all and yourself a huge favour, confine yourself to what you’re best at: producing expensive, wasteful and redundant print-outs of yesterday’s news. Thx.

Links:

• right2link.org
• right2link.org campaign sign up page

Post updated: 20/01/2010 10:58