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I don't think you can.

Suppose you read an article on Freerepublic that was taken from another news site.

If you had visited that site, you might have seen an advertisement there.

If you clicked on it, you might have actually bought the product.

That's depriving someone of income.

Besides, depriving someone of income isn't a litmus test as to whether or not it is okay to break a law. If you posted here, you broke it, plain and simple.

I know it is inconvenient and stupid. That's why it needs changed.

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Of course, this only applies to the POSTER of the article.

But, having ourselves associated with this site does lend our approval, and I doubt that, even if none of us HAVE posted an article, any of us would have a problem with doing so.

Come to think of it, I never have posted an article on Freerepublic, other than a vanity post once. But this wasn't a moral objection. Just laziness.