olia lialina: “Free speech in hypertext implies the "right to link", which is the very basic building unit for the whole Web” writes Tim Berners-Lee in 2000 in Weaving the Web. He adds “if the general right to link is not upheld for any reason, then fundamental principles of free speech are at stake, and something had better be changed.” pp.139, 141
olia lialina: Would never thought, I'd write it. And as the list shows it didn't appear important or urgent to anyone in 2013, when most of demands were made. When in 2014 user "hugo" introduced the right to deep linking, I left the comment which looked as a joke because indeed it was not meant serious enough. https://userrights.contemporary-home-computing.org/o95gp1/deep-link#crmwr1 https://twitter.com/bbbeeccaa/status/1267863334138925058?s=20 But todays tweet of bbbeeccaa as well as other sad observations : https://twitter.com/GIFmodel/status/1264189665806110726?s=20 "My student put documentation of his links based performance on Vimeo, but couldn't link to the actual project, because Vimeo turns URLs into links only for customers who upgraded to Plus" https://twitter.com/GIFmodel/status/1255564459243909120?s=20 "all jokes aside, the very existence of this service shouts about absurdity of today's web, hypocrisy of social networks and misery of their users ." -- suggested that it is time to remind to social networks that hyper links are not just some features or style element, but as Hossein Derakhshan wonderfully said in 2015 “They are its [web's] eyes, a path to its soul .” https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426
olia lialina: “Free speech in hypertext implies the "right to link", which is the very basic building unit for the whole Web” writes Tim Berners-Lee in 2000 in Weaving the Web. He adds “if the general right to link is not upheld for any reason, then fundamental principles of free speech are at stake, and something had better be changed.” pp.139, 141
olia lialina: https://olia.geocities.institute/@GIFmodel/109536135504073038