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"It's almost impossible to avoid AP content at the moment"

I don't see any problem for a blogger to stop linking to AP. Not wanting to be linked to is a very stupid wish, so instead of trying to "educate" AP it's much simpler and more appropriate to fullfill their wish.

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The problem isn't with getting some individuals to act on this. The problem is getting society as a whole to do so. This is a general problem with trying to incite a boycott of something that has very widespread usage: the dent you can make is often too small to be noticed, because society is too hard to organize.

It wan't meant as a boycott.

I just think that the author's recommendation for bloggers is ill-advised. It would be better to ignore AP rather than to pay extra attention to them.

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