Restrictive Linking Policies & The Net

Masem writes "News.com reports on a new site set up by Prof. David Sorkin of the John Marshall Law School that points out web sites with restrictive linking policies, entitled Don't Link To Us. Sorkin set up the site as a way to enlighten net users on the impact of such policies in the aftermath of past and pending court cases over deep linking policies. An owner of one site on the list, law.com, was suprised to discover that their site has a restrictive linking policy, and already plans to implement changes to it."

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Vegan.com Links to Huntington Life Sciences

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This past week on Vegan.com, we've run a "Don't Link to Huntington" article. Huntington prohibits linking to their site, which is reason enough in my eyes to link to them. They are one of the biggest vivisectors in the United States, and they want it both ways. They want to use a website to peddle their animal testing services to companies, while preventing animal rights groups from pointing to Huntingon.com in order to show the public what is done to animals for the sake of making a buck.

But here's where the story takes an interesting turn. As I said, we posted our link on Vegan.com a few days ago. I was expecting I might receive a nasty letter from their lawyers telling me to desist. Sheesh, in fact you could say I was hoping to get a notice from their lawyers, so I could tell them to go cram it. But nothing.

Instead, here's what they have apparently done. I just went to Vegan.com, and the links to Huntington's page now come up as refused if you click on them. Meanwhile, you can still manually type Huntington.com into your browser, and the site will come up. So I suspect they have put a block in place, refusing all links from Vegan.com. Try it and see for yourself

But of course, refusing links is not the worst thing these scumbags do, given the horrifying acts they perform every day on animals. But there's no point in starting a rant about that.