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unassociatedpress.net — Go here to sign a petition boycotting the Associated Press after they came up with their new regulations on blogs.

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  • ghandi, on 06/16/2008, -1/+14Proper link!

    http://www.unassociatedpress.net/index.php?option= ...
  • k8cpa, on 06/16/2008, -2/+6Count me in.
  • inactive, on 06/16/2008, -4/+6Well, I clicked on the link to find out what the story was and to learn about these regulations, but nothing is there except stuff saying to boycot the Associated press. I was even going to publish the "story" but there's no story to read. I'm not going to bury this submission, but I'm not going to digg it either. Sorry.
  • kyledeb, on 06/17/2008, -0/+2My bad, I clicked on the link that said digg at this website, but it looks like they've changed it around. Sorry about that.
  • ghandi, on 06/16/2008, -1/+3There are over 300 articles on the 'story' here

    http://www.unassociatedpress.net/

    frontpage of the petition site.
  • rzxc, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2I don't think the Streisand Effect applies here. The Associated Press is too well known. It's everywhere. If no one knew about the AP, I think publicizing this story would help them. However, the AP is everywhere. Publicizing this story will not bring them new clients because they own the market. On the other hand, publicizing this story may cause people to use other companies like Reuters and the AFP. For my part, from now on, I will always try to use a link from another agency other than the AP.
  • JDenigma, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2First there was ***** the RIAA!

    Now there's ***** the AP!
  • smacksaw, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2I'd rather just see them banned from Digg, Google News, etc.
  • edstate, on 06/17/2008, -1/+2While we're at it, let's boycott them for their biased, lazy reporting as well.
  • OpalZimbo, on 06/17/2008, -2/+2isn;'t this in effect drawing more attention to them dispite already having a story on the front page detailing the AP's blunder.
  • chanop, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1See INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE v. ASSOCIATED PRESS , 248 U.S. 215 (1918)

    "But the news element-the information respecting current events contained in the literary production-is not the creation of the writer, but is a report of matters that ordinarily are publici juris; it is the history of the day. It is not to be supposed that the framers of the Constitution, when they empowered Congress 'to promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries' (Const. art. 1, 8, par. 8), intended to confer upon one who might happen to be the first to report a historic event the exclusive right for any period to spread the knowledge of it."
  • paranoiabacon, on 06/17/2008, -2/+2You guys realize this is playing right into their hands, right?
  • ghandi, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1AP does not own the market - not in terms of global anyways.

    And this political blogger network does not adhere to traditional borders.

    Reuters, AFP, IPS, et al. There are lots of choices.

    The worst thing that will come out of this boycott is the damage to their brand. In that effect has vagaries of the Streisand Effect.

    RGK - developer of www.unassociatedpress.net
  • ileftfark, on 06/17/2008, -1/+1That's like telling Americans to boycott Walmart.
  • siobhankeogh, on 06/17/2008, -4/+3Oh, your apathy is soooo interesting!
  • oldhick, on 06/17/2008, -2/+1What am I missing here? Like others I click the link and get no story, no reasons why, just a petition... But I'll take the AP over a blog any day. At least the AP has standards and practices. Further, they're employing journalists who actually do research and report stories. We may not like all of their stories, but most blogs that get dugg are just stories ripped off stories from the AP that adhere to standards.
  • kyledeb, on 06/17/2008, -4/+2Here's the real thing you should digg:



    K
  • inactive, on 06/17/2008, -9/+1Can't I just boycott them for being anti-Israel, anti-America, pro-Islamic terrorist, lying, liberal scumbags?

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