In the mind of HG, all third-party content shared on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit must be stolen too because, like DeepClips, they also use the Open Graph protocol to grab shareable content from the host website and post it to their own platforms.
And HG probably thinks that embedding related tweets and youtube videos must be stealing too, even though third-party embedding is clearly covered within their terms of agreement for both end-users and content providers.
Ironically, Open Graph and embeddable content were both developed because the vast majority of content authors actually WANT third-parties to share and promote their content.
But, I’m not the only so-called blogger that HG harasses with baseless accusations for NO GOOD REASON. So, at least it’s not personal.
No, not yet. ;-)
The humble porcine bully uses no standards, no definitions, no criteria, to determine whether or not something belongs on freerepublic; it's wholly random.
He just likes being a bully.