Slashdot : Deja Linking Ads Within Usenet Posts?
Content Integrity7/19/2000; 8:15:14 AM 'skinfaxi noted that Deja has begun insert advertisements within the bodies of messages collected from usenet. Here's an example where the word 'Modem' was linked to (surprise) ads for modems! Skinfaxi attached Deja's response to her complaint below as well.'This is an unacceptable modification of people's Usenet posts and is is its most insidious form. Links are a form of speech, and by adding them to the poster's message, they are changing the content of that speech.What good is the right to free speech if any commercial interest can take your communication and modify it as they see fit for their own purposes?