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Comment by l1n | Hacker News Reader

That site seems to block hotlinking from HN: here's a mirror https://archive.is/jjS21

That's not hotlinking, that's just linking. Hotlinking refers specifically to embedding content (e.g. an image or iframe) from another host.

JWZ, despite being one of the main engineers at Netscape, does not seem to know what hotlinking means, and is (a) happy to break the web, and (b) happy to look like an asshole by making penises pop up on random people's computers because they didn't know "don't click a link to this random dude's site from HN".

HN mods, any chance of disabling autolinking for JWZ sites?

Your link is blocked too. As long as you paste it into a new tab you're fine. I'm not going to bother looking up the specific tweet he said this in but jwz has "no time for HN"

Found it: "@sloverlord Hacker News is a steaming cesspool and I don't have time or desire to deal with their bandwidth demands, so I just block them." ~jwz https://twitter.com/jwz/status/665658171415859200

Breaking the web in such a way is completely inacceptable. http://www.donotlink.com/hkjc

It's his website. By design, the Internet lets you do whatever you think is best, even if what you think is best is totally misguided.

I actually almost agree, that perhaps HN should create some sort of gateway that decreases the bandwidth costs of content creators.

I mean, I can walk around the street yelling "penis" at anyone wearing orange. Doesn't mean I'm not an asshole for doing so.

It's called CloudFlare (only a little tongue-in-cheek).

It will be fun to see someone lecturing JWZ on what he can do and what he cannot do on the web.

He can try to be an asshole, but no one – not even Sir Berners Lee – has the moral right to be an asshole just for the sake of it.

Torvalds behaviour is justified, as he provides, despite the rough tone, constructive criticism.

JWZ doesn’t even do that.

(Also, sending people a plaintext page explaining the issue would cost less of his traffic, and be less problematic)

JWZ actually blocks links from HN, specifically. No love lost there, it seems.

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