GOP removes URL shortener following pranks

Conservatives generally advocate a minimalist approach to certain areas of government. One wouldn't necessarily expect them to extend that approach to the web links, but that's exactly what the Republican National Committee did with the recently-launched GOP.am, a URL shortener designed to facilitate the exchange of links to Web pages of interest to right-wing Web surfers. Almost immediately after it launched yesterday, pranksters began using the service to link to controversial or ironically-intended websites such as the official site of the American Communist Party.

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