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.