NPR Rant (Idle Words)

06.18.2002

NPR Rant

Here's something to really piss you off - NPR's bullshit linking policy. Basically, they want you to ask permission if you want to link to any part of their website. This is idiotic for what reason?

a) Because the whole point of a website is that anyone can link to whatever they damned well please.

b) Because it takes all of five minutes to configure a web server to disallow deep linking, if it bothers you so much.

c) Because federal courts have already decided that links are a form of free speech.

d) All of the above.

Of course I asked NPR for permission to link to their site for this post - let's see what they tell me.