You Can't Link Here

An anonymous reader writes "Last year several news sources reported about the website dontlink.com from David Sorkin, associate professor of law at The John Marshall Law School in Chicago. His website fights 'stupid linking policies' that attempt to impose restrictions on other sites that link to them. Now a German law student joined the fight against linking restrictions and starts getting media attention in Germany. His list of stupid German linking policies can be found at the website Links & Law. Contrary to the model of dontlink.com, the German site refrains from linking to companies that prohibit linking without their consent. The site only states the URL of the websites with the linking policies. The page with the linking policies is in German, but the rest of the website is in English and covers many legal aspects of linking."

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Re:Why so upset about this concept?

[Wingnut64]

There's also the association issue. It would be so easy to create a site that combines satanism and American Express on a single page, using content hyperlinked from a satanism site and American Express, thereby giving the impression that American Express supports satanism.

I could also say that AE supports the devil or write an essay on how they bill people who owe $666 .00000003% more often. It is called freedom of speech/expression. I could also cite my works by saying I found it in Vol 5, chapter 2, page 123, par. 5 instead of saying 'check the library'.