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>Data was collected through Discord's public API, adhering to ethical guidelines How is it ethical to break Discord's terms of service? An ethical researcher w

>Data was collected through Discord's public API, adhering to ethical guidelines How is it ethical to break Discord's terms of service? An ethical researcher would respect any contracts that they agreed to and would not violate them to collect more data.

MarcelOlsz 1y ago
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- __loam 1y ago
  Awesome analysis dude! I'm sure the judge will love that when discord sues these guys.
  - DaSHacka 1y ago
    He said _ethical_, not _legal_. Would you agree abusive ToS's by massive corpos are unethical? What about the Disney+ ToS hiding a binding arbitration agreement preventing you from suing them? [0]. Or are you one of those "my personal ethics are whatever the law says" folk? [0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-sue-wifes-death-agreed-disney-terms-service-rcna166594 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...
    - __loam 1y ago
      The last guy who scraped discord like this was a freak who also got sued to hell by them.
      - DaSHacka 1y ago
        The difference is they ran a private service to profit off the scraped data, and explicitly marketed it as a "dox-for-hire" service, so ethically I think the situations are quite different (the researchers explitly took steps to censor usernames in this dataset)
zetanor 1y ago
Which ethical system demands that researchers from the DCC/UFMG not breach an unaffiliated commercial ToS during their research?
- charcircuit 1y ago
  One that recognizes that lying and tricking people is wrong to do.