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The robots.txt comment explaining that they disallow the Internet Archive crawler to protect users' privacy sounds so facetious given they require people regist

• cooper12 10y ago
  Wow that's blatant discrimination. Hasan himself put it best in the email: > Your reason for querying the authenticity of my name seem arbitrary and unfair. Discriminating against non-familiar names begs the question: non-familiar to who? Would you have questioned me had I used a fake but common English name? If you intend to attract a global community of users you will have to reconsider this approach. And the protecting privacy bit is a huge cop-out because it's only really "protecting" them from honest actors who adhere to robots.txt. Not to mention that publishing something with your name on it is effectively making that association public; just like how you should assume that passwords committed to a public GitHub repository are no longer secure, you should exercise the same vigilance with your identity. Sure it's great that they let you change it, but someone out there probably already knows the association and wrote about it, and anyone persistent enough to use the Wayback Machine on an anonymous post will probably find out what they need anyway.