Fred Bauder wrote:
Your essay presumes that a parasitic site feeding off us does not suffer lack of oxygen if we don't link to them. I suppose if a tick got on you, you would just let it suck and suck, get bigger and bigger and have a litter of little ticks.
I'm sorry, but the analogy doesn't work for me. The only way to cut off the oxygen supply of a site like that would be to somehow prevent it (i.e. all the people editing it) from *reading* Wikipedia. Just cutting off the links, that's like, I don't know, donning a pair of dark black Joo Janta peril-sensitive sunglasses so that *we* can't see the tick (but everybody else can still see it, sucking away).
I bet you get rid of that tick in real life.
Sure. But our laws seem to treat acarinicide and homicide differently.