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I noticed a while back that he had started posting stuff that had originally appeared on sites other than his; naif that I apparently am, I assumed he had permission to use that material. If he's stealing it, he could easily end up in deep doo-doo.

I can give an example. Herman Cain posts a blog of his on hermancain.com - which by the way, is NOT on the excerpt list. Some time later, Cain's blog appears on Canada Free Press, and then gets posted on Free Republic (excerpted, of course) from there!

Why, you may ask? Well, so that it can be excerpted, of course - leading people to the clickbait known as Canada Free Press! Cha ching!

The article COULD have been posted IN FULL from Herman Cain's website, but then there wouldn't have been any $$ earned.

When he posts here at Free Republic he posts an excerpt. Except he does not mark it as an exceprt leading you to believe he has posted the entire article. When he fact he did not.

Who appointed him as editor to cut and chop original content by others and post it here as a complete article? This is his latest chop job.

If that's not illegal, it certainly is a scummy journalistic trick. That's why I've warned the powers that be here at FR that they are skating on thin ice as they allow it. At the very least they should enforce FR's own posting rules, but they don't seem to care.

I noticed a while back that he had started posting stuff that had originally appeared on sites other than his; naif that I apparently am, I assumed he had permission to use that material. If he's stealing it, he could easily end up in deep doo-doo.
I can give an example. Herman Cain posts a blog of his on hermancain.com - which by the way, is NOT on the excerpt list. Some time later, Cain's blog appears on Canada Free Press, and then gets posted on Free Republic (excerpted, of course) from there!
Why, you may ask? Well, so that it can be excerpted, of course - leading people to the clickbait known as Canada Free Press! Cha ching!

The article COULD have been posted IN FULL from Herman Cain's website, but then there wouldn't have been any $$ earned.

Sean_Anthony, now that you are finally commenting on your articles, would you like to explain this?

Don't get me wrong, most of us like the fact that your Canada Free Press provides a more conservative angle on your articles. It's the blog pimping that bothers FReepers.