On: Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved

[wltr]

But that doesn’t make any sense. A link might be printed in a book. Nobody accessed it, yet they might at some point. Such a service is quite good for printing in books, instead of QR-codes.

[OutOfHere → wltr]

It makes sense in a technical capacity, not in an epistemic one. I never claimed it is the right thing to do.