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X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
- like_any_other 2mo ago"The Ninth Circuit ruled in 2019 that web scraping did not violate the CFAA in hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#United_States I think X is also using breach of ToS as leverage, but if that worked, surely LinkedIn would have also blocked scraping that way?
- zahlman 2mo agoDiscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49437283