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Hm. I wonder if this question poses more harm than good, but I'll ask it:

Does the right to free speech protect in this way:

    <a href="[not_protected]">[protected]</a>

?



I ask because it seems that we're moving in the direction of

    <a href="[not_protected]">[not_protected]</a>
That said:

    blah blah blah .... blah blah
Now if a crawler scans that, puts it into an aggregate feed and cites me as the source, and there's a hyperlink in there... That means trouble for everyone.

But really, if I give you some text and you copy-paste a substring of it into a search engine and get a Stratfor document, what's that mean?

Is it the function of a hyperlink + intent, or is it just the speech itself? Doesn't "speech" imply intentionality which itself is what is examined by law?




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