[liberationtech] Medill online Digital Safety Guide

Scott Elcomb psema4 at gmail.com
Wed May 29 20:32:47 PDT 2013


On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
> BTW, speaking of odd-seeming links: no URL-shorteners.
> There are zero legitimate uses for them, they're overrun with
> abuse thanks to the profound incompetence and systemic negligence
> of their operators, and there is evidence that some of them are
> *run* by abusers.

For the most part, I agrree though I don't mind bit.ly urls.  Anyone
can simply append a + onto the end of any bit.ly link to get a summary
page / preview before following the link.

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