Re: Filters on url shortening services

[Florian Weimer <Weimer () CERT Uni-Stuttgart DE>]

Andrew Hodgson <andrew () hodgsonfamily org> writes:

> The second is that anyone can create any url, and the user knows very
> little about what they are clicking on.

And this differs in what way from the current state of affairs on the
rest of the net?

Anybody is free to start his own shortcut service.  Certainly, you
don't want to take aways this freedom!

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