For example, one statement says, “[commenters] have the right to request that their comments be removed.”

First, he clearly only says you have the right to make the request, but I assume he intends to say that commenters have a right for the request to be granted.

Can you imagine the ramifications of such a position? Let’s say, for example, that someone had a beef with your blog (or a big political blog or whatever). They get together a bunch of disgruntled folks to post on the blog in question. Then, collectively, they demand that all their comments be removed? You could literally take a blog down.

If this is legal, then why would it only apply to WEB print material. Why not, say, magazines. Why can’t you give approval for publication and then retract approval and then demand that publisher recall the printed material? (Of course, that’s impossible, but it’s also really impossible long-term to “unprint” the web, too.)

He also says, “…when it comes to protecting content within your comments, you have roughly the same amount of rights as you would with content posted on other blogs.”

So, do authors (apparently only on web media) really have the right to give permission to publish and retract that permission at will?

I’d be interested to hear how this all pans out.

To be clear, I don’t use InfoLinks, nor do I do any comment linking on any of my blogs. I do find them annoying. But I don’t have any qualms about other bloggers making the choice to use them, since I can choose to read elsewhere.
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