U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic Powers

Re:U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic P... by sottero on Saturday August 24, 2019 @05:53PM (#20789958)

Why does this page have advertisements? Is Cornell having trouble scraping by charging students a mere $67K tuition a year?

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Re:U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic P... by tracker1 on Saturday August 24, 2019 @07:59PM (#20790478)

The link to Advertise Here[1] at the bottom of the page does reveal a little bit of what it's for.

> The LII offers a variety of sponsorship opportunities to individuals and organizations interested in supporting our efforts to publish online legal collections, the widely-read, objective case previews and timely decisions delivered in our LII Supreme Court Bulletin, our applied research in legal information and online publishing, and our efforts to grow understanding of law through innovative methods like crowd-sourced legal analysis.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/lii/help_out/sponsor

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Re:U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic P... by neilv on Saturday August 24, 2019 @06:57PM (#20790223)

Not just advertisements: they're leaking to a bunch of trackers the information of who is reading what parts of the law.

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Re:U.S. Code Chapter 35 – International Emergency Economic P... by wishinghorse on Saturday August 24, 2019 @08:10PM (#20790519)

That sounds relatively dystopian.

Such is life with the current business model of the internet, I suppose.

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