Terms of Use

These are the rules for using this site. They're written to be read, not to bury liability in subordinate clauses.

Using the content

Everything published on Questionable Authority represents a significant investment of time and research. You're welcome to quote from articles, share links, and reference the work here — that's how ideas spread and that's fine. What's not fine is copying whole articles and republishing them somewhere else, with or without attribution, as if they're yours to distribute. A paragraph and a link back is sharing. A full repost is theft.

If you're a journalist, researcher, or educator who wants to reproduce something substantial for a legitimate purpose, ask first. The answer will probably be yes, with attribution. The point isn't to be obstructive — it's that content scraped and republished without permission, especially into AI training datasets or content farms, degrades the original source and that's worth pushing back on.

The opinions expressed here are exactly that — opinions, alongside reported facts and analysis. Nothing on this site constitutes legal, medical, financial, or professional advice. If you make a decision based on something you read here without doing your own due diligence, that's on you.

Comments and submissions

If you leave a comment or send in a tip or submission, you're responsible for what you write. Don't defame people, don't post content you don't have the right to post, and don't use the contact or comment functions to harass anyone. Those rules exist because they're the minimum conditions for civil exchange, not because there's a legal team monitoring submissions.

Comments that are abusive, spammy, or wildly off topic will be removed. There's no appeals process for that. It's a website, not a court.

If you submit a tip or piece of information, you're representing that you have the right to share it and that sharing it doesn't violate any legal obligation you're under — a confidentiality agreement, for instance. We won't publish something that puts a source at legal risk without understanding that risk first, but we also can't be responsible for what we don't know.

Accuracy and corrections

The goal is to get things right. When something is wrong, it gets corrected with a clear note in the article. That said, information on any news or analysis site can become outdated, and the world has a habit of changing after publication. Articles are dated for a reason. Don't rely on a two-year-old piece for current regulatory status of something that moves fast.

If you find a factual error, use the contact page. If you're a PR representative asking for a correction because your client doesn't like the framing — that's a different conversation and the outcome will probably differ from what you're hoping for.

Links and external sites

This site links to external sources because good journalism shows its work. Linking to something is not an endorsement of everything on that site. It means the linked content was relevant at the time of writing. Domains change hands, pages get edited, and the internet is not an archive. A link that made sense in 2023 might point somewhere different now.

Limitation of liability

Use this site at your own risk. It's provided as-is. If the server goes down, if an article contains an error that affects a decision you made, if something breaks in your browser — these are not grounds for a claim against this site. That's a standard clause and it means what it says.

Changes to These Terms

If these terms change in a meaningful way, the date below will be updated. The changes won't be hidden. Read the page if you want to know what the current terms are.

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