<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Remember the campaign to make Huffington Post retract its fact articles on Ayyadurai?<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 18, 2019, at 3:31 PM, Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dhc@dcrocker.net" class="">dhc@dcrocker.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">On 5/18/2019 2:26 PM, Richard Bennett wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Is this a win or a loss for Masnick?<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">It ends the waste of funds. But it doesn't reimburse them for the waste up to now.<br class=""><br class="">He notes that adding the link is pretty much on a par with what they already had, so he doesn't count it as meaning much. My own reaction is the same. So while it might be distasteful, I don't count it for much either way.<br class=""><br class="">To me the larger issue is the 'fake news' aspect of people's being able to claim a role in Internet history that they did not have, but by virtue of their aggressive marketing and legal manipulations, getting treated as if they did. I wish I saw a deterministic way to fix that.<br class=""><br class="">d/<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">Dave Crocker<br class="">Brandenburg InternetWorking<br class=""><a href="http://bbiw.net" class="">bbiw.net</a><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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