I honestly don't understand where this type of idiocy comes from. Misguided self-interest? How does it even serve them? It frequently seems to me that those of us that work towards, at least in some small way, fulfilling the promise of the Web to connect and share knowledge are constantly fighting efforts to cripple it.
I'm an editor on Whatis.com. Our mandate has always been to provide readers with the best information we could find, whether it comes from one of our sister sites or a competitor. Naively, we assumed that competitors would appreciate being linked to, as we do. In the past couple of years, a number of the larger online media organizations have ordered us to stop linking to their content, I suppose on the premise that without their deathless prose we would shrivel up and blow away. Hasn't happened yet;-)
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I'm an editor on Whatis.com. Our mandate has always been to provide readers with the best information we could find, whether it comes from one of our sister sites or a competitor. Naively, we assumed that competitors would appreciate being linked to, as we do. In the past couple of years, a number of the larger online media organizations have ordered us to stop linking to their content, I suppose on the premise that without their deathless prose we would shrivel up and blow away. Hasn't happened yet ;-)
Keep fighting the good fight!
This creature came swooping down and gobbled them up.