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forbid creating an off platform archive I'm not sure that's a substantively enforceable idea. Just try and stop me?

• Filligree 10y ago
  Break the terms of service, and you'll be booted off. Be a large enough problem, as they see it, and you'll get the entire project booted off. Probably they don't care enough to enforce, but surely you see it's part of the problem that they could?
  • pavement 10y ago
    Right, but they do still permit the capacity to read accessible history, which is open to scraping and archiving. They can't completely kill the concept of doing that, realistically. They can't stop someone from creating an archive that's inaccessible to them, if they don't know of its existense. Anyone can create an archive of something they can read and hide it, and selectively share it. Such an agreement on curtails specific forms of automated crawling and public-facing archives.