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Creating barriers to entry is an antisocial tactic that harms consumers and society at large. It is the responsibility of moral consumers to avoid spending the
by cwkoss 7y ago
Creating barriers to entry is an antisocial tactic that harms consumers and society at large.
It is the responsibility of moral consumers to avoid spending their money with companies that use these regressive tactics.
- jibal 7y agoOne could argue that it's immoral to respond to a comment about a topic when one hasn't read the link in that comment.
- leesalminen 7y agoI think it’s important to distinguish types of barriers to entry. Some are “real” while others are “artificial”. For example, a real barrier to entry would be institutional knowledge about an industry while an artificial one would be an arbitrary TOS clause.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoAnd disallowing scraping or making it difficult while refraining from providing an API for the same data is the arbitrary kind. The default state of the web is that it's trivially scrapable - you have to go out of your way to make it harder.