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Aou has decided to censor Amren dot com. You can find his stated reasons for this Here and Here. I disagree with calling the reprinting of articles "spam". Given the terseness of his response to me, as well as the questions he didn't answer, I guess that he considers the matter settled and not worthy of further discussion.

Banning Amren is a popular action right now; archive.org has done just that to avoid "White supremacists" using their service for evil.

It's possible that my concern isn't warranted, but this seems very much to me like when FPH was banned from Reddit-that-was. The reason I love poal is because it doesn't pull shit like this; it doesn't ban sites like Amren. I wonder where this leads. Not even being able to type out amren's URL is inconsistent with the ideal of free speech.

Please only post links to original Amren content, or, if you find an article that they have reprinted on their site, please post to the original publisher as apparently, reprinting stories is now 'spam'.

Aou has decided to censor Amren dot com. You can find his stated reasons for this [Here](https://poal.co/s/TellPoal/290470) and [Here](https://poal.co/s/RealWhatever/290437/4108af94-a976-44ca-a34f-93f909652a88#cmnts). I disagree with calling the reprinting of articles "spam". Given the terseness of his response to me, as well as the questions he didn't answer, I guess that he considers the matter settled and not worthy of further discussion. Banning Amren is a popular action right now; archive.org has done just that to avoid "White supremacists" using their service for evil. It's possible that my concern isn't warranted, but this seems very much to me like when FPH was banned from Reddit-that-was. The reason I love poal is because it doesn't pull shit like this; it doesn't ban sites like Amren. I wonder where this leads. Not even being able to type out amren's URL is inconsistent with the ideal of free speech. Please only post links to original Amren content, or, if you find an article that they have reprinted on their site, please post to the original publisher as apparently, reprinting stories is now 'spam'.

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Actually, I never bother to go to Amren anymore, and it's for the exact reason @AOU states. They blatantly just copy articles and paste them on their own page. Linking to the original at the end seems to me like a CYA move so they don't get sued for copyright infringement.

That said, if you post links to original content from their site here, I think it should be allowed.

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Who's going to check every single amren link posted here then? :)

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Not me, that's for sure!

:-)

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Well me, I guess.

>Please only post links to original Amren content, or, if you find an article that they have reprinted on their site, please post to the original publisher

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What if you fail in doing so and spam continues? How are you gonna prevent spam accounts from starting it again?

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Well, at least someone agrees with him.

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I agree that they copy/pasta content, if that's what you mean.

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Yes they reprint content. I'm not clear on why reprinting is considered wrong? Plenty of sights (zerohedge, natural news) do it all the time. Often the content that they reprint comes from a site I don't want to give any clicks to. And as for ads, I have no idea if they even have ads because adblockers work. It's his site, but a large fraction of people don't agree that it's spam. Also, that reprinting is only a small percentage of their articles. They're all in the same vein. Aggregating content shouldn't be considered controversial.