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bhhaskin
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That was a case of scraping explicitly public data that was already available to the general public without any extra effort.
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mitxela
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Which is exactly what Twitter is?
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petcat
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no twitter requires a login
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miningtcup
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I think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.
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mitxela
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That is still a form of publicly available.
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Tostino
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Explain to me why that matters at all in an ethical sense. Especially given the scraping / pirating that's gone on by all of these companies in the last number of years.
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andOlga
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When have ethics ever mattered in law?
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pessimizer
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Who cares this is a subthread about legal advice.
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