On 20/10/2007, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Durova wrote:
> Here's one possible way to implement this
that wouldn't relate to the NPOV
> policy: don't remove links, simply deactivate them. The same information
> remains for anyone who wants to cut and paste the URL into a browser
> manually.
This is a nice-sounding compromise, but it strikes me
as pretty silly.
It doesn't stop anyone who wants to visit the verboten page; it
merely annoys them, to no purpose. It cements the notion that
banning the link is punitive, not protective.
We do it for shock sites, and
antisocialmedia.net is odious enough to
deserve not being linked.
- d.