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Adversarial Intercompatibility is the existing tool the governments used that I like most. Facebook and Google both exist because they scraped the existing web
by jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Adversarial Intercompatibility is the existing tool the governments used that I like most. Facebook and Google both exist because they scraped the existing web (Myspace and all of the web, respectively), yet that capability is often a 'criminal violation of buissneas model' today, with harsh DMCA penalties.
Users shouldn't ever have to be locked into an app. Like they shouldn't have been locked into just Ma Bell telephones. Carterphone should apply here.
What tools that Lina listed did you like most? M&A (Mergers & acquisitions) was the main focus seemingly but she did go through other tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWbc6pekd8#t=37m3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CWbc6pekd8#t=37m3s
- MajimasEyepatch 3y agoWeb scraping is legal as long as the data is publicly available and you're not accidentally (or intentionally) DoSing the site. DMCA does not really come into it at all.
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoBut social networks are almost all private by default. It's quite against term of service to scrape Twitter or Facebook. Using third party tools is liable to get one banned. There doesn't seem to be much granting users the right or ability to either use their own clients, nor can they effectively switch away & keep their connections. These networks are treating themselves like AT&T/MaBell, and have outlawed all the Carterphones. We're locked in, in a horrific way.
- Manuel_D 3y agoAnyone who wanted to opt out of Google's indexing could have edited their robots.txt file. They didn't do so because most people want their sites to be indexed on Google.