Comment Re:Posner (Score 1) 390
Correct. This has little or nothing to do with free speech. And the death of 'the old model' may strengthen free speech.
But it will kill investigative journalism...
They are both dear to me and I would not lose either. The solution cannot be litigious or it risks harm to the 1st amendment.
If the problem is linking isn't there a fairly simple technological solution (HTML? PHP?) to the commercial news media not wanting their text directly linked to? Can't they simply have a generated page name that goes missing when copied and linked back to? Sites that host images sometimes do this to avoid being an image server. When the link is followed one simply finds themselves at the New York Times or The Washington Post homepage.
