I am in favour of free speech and I am opposed to strategic lawsuits against public participation. I therefore encourage you to visit Tim Ireland’s blog and decide for yourself. I would suggest that Paul Staines is acting in a distinctly unpleasant manner.

Staines has added this little piece of code to his website:

var refarray = new Array();
refarray['bloggerheads.com'] = “http://www.cafepress.com/guido-fawkes”;
refarray['tinyurl.com'] = “http://www.cafepress.com/guido-fawkes”;
for (var i in refarray) {
if (document.referrer.indexOf(i) != -1) window.location.replace(refarray[i]);
Which means, for the non-technical, that anyone who follows a link on Tim’s website to Paul’s website is re-directed to somewhere selling t-shirts. It also means that anyone using TinyUrl aliases couldn’t go directly to Paul’s site. In other words, Staines wants to make it harder for anyone to see what’s going on.

xD.

Posted on Friday, February 1st, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Categories: Blogging.
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