Ying writes about how someone got fined a lot of money for hyperlinking somewhere inappropriate.

The case appears to be an open and shut case where as long as you did, it’s a penalty despite the fact that the other link may or may not be harmless or could be changed. Website’s are incredibly fluid and that to me is a kind of censorship that should be resisted. The entire WEB is a series of hyperlinks, so shall we next sue Google for providing links to potentially inappropriate materials? Somehow, I think, Google would resist it and so probably it would not even be considered.

This move is dangerous and sets a precedent about hyperlinks, to restrict it is to be an enemy of free speech. A hyperlink on the web is like referencing a conversation, just that the audience is much bigger. So if I show a group of friends some obscene material in a dinner table should I be fined for that for simply sharing it to a bunch of qualified people?

By allowing the removing of a reference i.e. hyperlink as a penalty is censorship, pure and simple.