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"do their job"

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> This may include promoting your content with partner companies or services for broader broadcast, distribution, or publication.

"doing their job"? What if I do not want them to do that with my content? Have I ceded my control? Can I tell them not to do so?

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You know when you see one of those Twitter embeds where a tweet or a conversation is pulled into a different page? That's "broader distribution" right there, and if Medium made that kind of feature I'd certainly count that as "doing their job".

And I'd count it as "using my content in a way I did not authorize", but HN seems okay with that.

Then don't license your works to a third party website so they can be displayed on said site. Simple.

Don't be asinine.

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