This is a fair philosophical quibble, but the tiny amount of harm done in in real world makes this a waste of time discussing. You made it public on the damn w

This is a fair philosophical quibble, but the tiny amount of harm done in in real world makes this a waste of time discussing. You made it public on the damn web, people doing what they wanted with it is fair game per the original ethos of the web. If you wanted it to be private, you should have some auth or encryption. The actual real world harm is in actually-common-used means of personal communication were network effects preclude on carrying out they business with technology appropriate to desired privacy levels. Chatting on my custom website was always niche, and therefore the network effects argument doesn't carry water. We should refrain from worrying about robots.txt minute until the elephant in the room is put to rset.