A bunch of stupid bullies who don’t understand the concepts of “fair use” and “internet” (or more likely, understand them very well but don’t like them), think they have enough clout to dictate terms. Well, the millions and millions and billions of Wetmachine readers will have to find their own way to AP stories from now on. I’m not going to link to them. Take that, you wankers!
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John’s Tweets
Load More@JoJoFromJerz @RonFilipkowski I flew into Qatar, then flew into Iraq via a C130. I was working on a TS mission and was awarded the Iraq campaign medal. Being in the country is not classified; the mission is classified. Does he have the Afghanistan campaign medal and is it on his DD214?
@natsechobbyist @RonFilipkowski If Majewski's service in Afghanistan was classified, he shouldn't be blabbing about it.
Trump to spend the weekend searching his closets for Majewski’s Afghanistan records https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1573365018808451072
Trump endorsed congressional candidate JR Majewski today says that the reason why there is no record of him serving in combat in Afghanistan in his service record is because it is “classified.”
Next you can take their very predicament and make it their choice and their fault, the reason they deserve it.
And once the problem is established as "too many people" and the people suffering the problem are established as causing it ... the final solution presents itself.". . . that their presence is a crime. . ." The right wing universally referred to the kidnapped migrants recently deposited here on Martha's Vineyard as "illegals." Implying that their very existence is illegal. This is 100% fascist language. @FoxNews
The idea seems to be be to convince us that that those w/o property are nothing like us; that they are first lesser people, then less than people, then finally not people at all—that their presence is a crime, and their predicament the inevitable product of their choices.
As Open Source Journalism continues to grow, the shoe will be on the other foot in about 10 years. Then when AP wants to source a story from some video blog they will get sued. Which by the way Michael Yon did that very thing against Reuters.
As I understand things, AP was people who quoted a few sentences and then linked to the AP site.
I’ve seen a bunch of people who have been extremely liberal in their interpretation of “fair use” with respect to some Wetmachine articles from time to time. It would be more annoying if a giant concern like AP did it. But if AP wants to quote a few sentences from a Wetmachine article and include a link to the original, that’s fine by me. That’s the whole idea of the web, for Pete’s sake.
I don’t think we should boycott: I think every blogger should link to as many AP stories as possible! Maybe write a little script to generate the links automatically. Put up an RSS aggregation. Quote like hell.
Make them pay a fortune for unproductive legal action. And after bloggers jointly raise their AP’s Page Rank in Google, how are they going to claim damages?
Yes, I agree that it is a much better form of social protest to link like crazy than to boycott links. Stick it to them!