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I think "Scrapping" semantic meaning is slowly switching to "illegally collecting", and for those who mean that, your comment is perceived as pedantic (basicall

by orwin 1y ago

I think "Scrapping" semantic meaning is slowly switching to "illegally collecting", and for those who mean that, your comment is perceived as pedantic (basically me when people talk about "crypto" and i am still responding "cryptocurrency you mean?")

hrimfaxi 1y ago
Why would scraping have an unlawful connotation? I thought US courts have ruled scraping to be allowed.
- verdverm 1y ago
  "scraping" is being used in two ways 1. Scraping a website, by anyone, allowed by courts if it is publicly accessible 2. "Scraping" of data, by the government, from various sources into a centralized database in partnership with Palantir. It's a worse version of the "Patriot" Act
zzrrt 1y ago
FYI, you wrote “scrapping”, but the word under discussion only has one P.