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Righty-ho then.
I was reading the eminently perusable plasticbag.org, Tom's blog, the other day, when he linked to this e-mail by a guy who had linked to the KPMG corporation on his site.
(At the moment, the site is very difficult to get to - but here's a Metafilter thread on it all.)
Basically, the story goes that this guy put the link up, and KPMG sent him a worrying e-mail, the gist of which was: "Please be aware such links require that a formal Agreement exist between our two parties, as mandated by our organization's Web Link Policy."
Or, in other words, do not link to KPMG's website unless they say so.
Sorry, that is KPMG's website which you are not supposed to link to.
Wouldn't you say that for a company to have such a policy kind of goes against freedom of speech? Or indeed, for anyone who has that sort of policy.
I link all the time on here - because I want to show people what I'm talking about. So imagine if I had to ask people whether or not I could do anything first.
Wouldn't that kind of hamper my ability to discuss and comment on things online?
Well, balls to that.
[note: It's fair to bet that KPMG are going to be a bit sniffy about this - so try not to say anything libellous about them. But hell, link 'em - especially on your blogs. If you haven't already.]
Still timing out - he must be getting tons of hits at the moment. Or sued by KPMG |
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