Apparently, the word "internet" is a euphemism for "help yourself".

Where the internet is concerned, people have a “help yourself” attitude. When I first started my site, I will confess that I was ignorant of the nuances of what was, and what wasn’t, off limits. Common sense and my 10th-grade English class should have taught me all I needed to know, but the internet is HUGE and it is easy to be lazy.And then something happens, someone slaps your wrist and you are either horrified to find that you’re “that person” or you think that statistically speaking, you are good to go for awhile before you get caught again. I fell into the first category and used a few pictures that weren’t mine without accurately crediting the original source (a feat which is sometimes incredibly difficult to do) and I quoted others without referencing the original article in a footnote. I don’t do either of these things anymore and haven’t in a really long time. Because of my own transgressions, I am normally pretty chill when someone lifts my work or clips my articles and publishes them on their own site. Instead of calling in an airstrike, I typically shoot off an email and ask the individual to credit the source with a link back to the original. I don’t like it when people copy entire articles so I might escalate those a bit faster but normally, it’s just an image or a portion of an article and we can all remain ...