Associated Press and ASZ Linking Policy
Due to the Associated Press harassment of bloggers, ASZ will no longer link to or cite Associated Press stories, nor link to their media partners.
It seems that the Associated Press has started targeting bloggers for linking to or excerpting stories published under an AP byline. Fine and dandy. I guess it keeps their lawyers busy, no matter how specious the DMCA filings against an individual blogger might be. Fair use is fair use, and what the AP did in their heavy-handed demand for removal of references to seven AP stories on Drudge Retort was just flat out wrong, ill advised, and little more than general cyber harassment.
Henceforth, ASZ will join other major left (and right) wing blogs in not linking to any story from the Associated Press, either directly or at one of their media partner sites. Additionally, unless absolutely necessary (because no other source is available), ASZ will not excerpt nor cite from any AP article.
We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause our readers.
good for you!
I hear that great orange satan is considering a lawsuit.
Fuck the AP. Their reporting sucks anyway: they gave us the likes of John Solomon and the embarrassingly stupid lara jakes jordan.
Good riddance ot bad rubbish I say, and hopefully they’ll have the same experience the NYT had when they put up their ill-advised firewall: ad revenue dropped precipitously and they had to rescind the decision.