Strange article. URL shorteners are perfectly fine if you own it. Why wouldn't it be? All the shortened URLs are of your interest, and you are in control if the

Strange article. URL shorteners are perfectly fine if you own it. Why wouldn't it be? All the shortened URLs are of your interest, and you are in control if the service functions or not. To use a third-party URL shortener, for important links like political agendas, is questionable. It always depends on the context. I would have never thought that someone would use a URL shortener in a research paper. Why is this even allowed? I would have guessed that a URL shortener would not be accepted as a source.