{"id":28572,"date":"2012-07-13T22:47:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/if-you-cant-say-something-nice-dont-link-to-us-at-all.html"},"modified":"2012-07-13T22:47:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-14T04:47:05","slug":"if-you-cant-say-something-nice-dont-link-to-us-at-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/if-you-cant-say-something-nice-dont-link-to-us-at-all.html","title":{"rendered":"If you can&#39;t say something nice, don&#39;t link to us at all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Official London 2012 Website:<\/p>\n<p>Notwithstanding your Terms of Use of the site, specifically item 5(a) &quot;Linking Policy,&quot; your requirement that nobody is allowed to link to your site in a way that &quot;shall portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, derogatory or otherwise objectionable manner,&quot; I think that&#39;s one of the silliest misinterpretations of the Internet I&#39;ve ever heard of, and demonstrates the sort of breathtakingly autocratic attitude of the Olympic <s>business empire<\/s> movement that we&#39;ve all come to roll our eyes at every two years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I hope you don&#39;t find that derogatory or objectionable. \u00a0Or, perhaps, I do.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.london2012.com\/terms-of-use\/'>Terms of use 2012 Olympics | London 2012<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOfficial Website &amp; Mobile Apps for the London 2012 Summer Olympics. Live results, competition schedule, news, photos, videos, medal count, athlete bios.   \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8QbJc8HyNii' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Official London 2012 Website: Notwithstanding your Terms of Use of the site, specifically item 5(a) &quot;Linking Policy,&quot; your requirement that nobody is allowed to link to your site in a way that &quot;shall portray us or any other official London 2012 organisations (or our or their activities, products or services) in a false, misleading, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/13\/if-you-cant-say-something-nice-dont-link-to-us-at-all.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;If you can&#39;t say something nice, don&#39;t link to us at all&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129649,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/05\/when-you-have-official-language-police-things-can-get-ugly.html","url_meta":{"origin":28572,"position":0},"title":"When you have Official Language Police, things can get ugly","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Feb-16 11:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The French are known for being ... um ... determined to intentionally maintain the purity of their tongue, to officially deprecate word imports in favor of their own native words, etc.But that sort of sentiment can draw flak when the government officially makes changes to the language.'French linguistic purists have\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33723,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/13\/the-geography-of-hate.html","url_meta":{"origin":28572,"position":1},"title":"The Geography of Hate","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-May-13 3:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Interesting (if depressing) study of the derogatory use of certain terms on Twitter -- hand curated so that positive uses of the terms (racial, gender orientation, etc.) \u00a0could be excluded. 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