completely unrelated to what’s being discussed. If I don’t want my fairly anonymous HN posts to be scraped I can avoid posting on HN. I cannot avoid every cont

completely unrelated to what’s being discussed. If I don’t want my fairly anonymous HN posts to be scraped I can avoid posting on HN. I cannot avoid every contact I have not using these services, unless I have no contacts. If whatever point you’re making is “who cares you can’t avoid it anyway,” that’s not only intellectually very lazy, it’s untrue - Lots of countries have regulated their way around these issues. The fact that one of the biggest producers of tech in the world (US) has this space fairly unregulated is not some excuse to capitulate to things that are fairly easy to regulate sensibly, if there is political will and knowledge. With uninformed takes like the parent I’m replying to still floating around out there, I guess it really is inevitable and unavoidable.