New Orbitz Terms Prohibit Inbound Deep Linking

chekovma writes "Orbitz has announced a new set of Terms and Conditions that take effect March 12th which require anyone who uses their website (creates an account there) to follow strict inbound linking rules. These rules prohibit a user from creating even a plain text link to orbitz.com without first notifying them and require a user to take down such a link at their desire. It also disallows any deep linking -- meaning even this post violates those terms and conditions."

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Re:I guess this is Orbitz way ...

[tomhudson]

Your wish is my command: here, follow the links for the original text he published on February 7th, the modifications he made, then the withdrawal of the article and the backdating of it to January 1st 2001.

Also, you might want to verify it by looking in Google's cache - they have a copy of the modified post.

The original post, dated February 7th, 2005, is reproduced below in it's entirety, for those too lazy to click:

angry-economist.russnelson.com/blacks_are_lazy.htm l

The economist is here, and boy is he pissed.

Mon, 07 Feb 2005

Blacks are lazy

Black people are lazy in that they work less hard than whites. Not only that, but they are rational to be lazy! After black slaves were freed, they worked less. The value of their leisure time (highly valued after a lifetime of slavery) exceeded the pay from their work. Also, ongoing American racism has caused blacks to be paid less than whites. If everything else is the same, a black person is less likely to want to work as hard as a white person. I think that is what led people into the mistaken idea that blacks are lazy--as a characteristic of being black. They're not; it's an economically-ignorant idea to say that they are. They're just rationally valuing their leisure time at the same rate as whites, getting paid less for the same work, and deciding to work less because of it.

Actually, come to think about it, we had about 150 years of black slavery, and it hasn't even been 150 years since the Civil War. It wouldn't surprise me to find that blacks are still taught to value their leisure time more highly than whites. When their forebears were slaves, their leisure time was very precious to them. Cultures change slowly.

And no, this isn't Troll Tuesday.

Re:I guess this is Orbitz way ...

[tomhudson]

This statement:

If everything else is the same, a black person is less likely to want to work as hard as a white person

... makes a claim that has nothing to do with pay (that's what "everything else is the same" means - you control for those factors). To say that 2 people, 1 whate, one black, both making the same money, and yet claim "a black person is less likely to want to work as hard" is racist.