Tek say resist

Hey #admins, get a load of the "ethics statement" on this asshole's fediverse scraping project:

"Publishing your toots/messages on a server without marking them private or requiring authentication and thus making them available to the web is an act of affirmative consent to allowing others to download those toots/messages [...]"

I recommend suspending the author's sneak.berlin instance.

#admins

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cj 🇺🇸🇨🇭

4 years ago

Here they are on Hacker News too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22524368

Tek say resist

4 years ago

They're digging in their heels.

Hypolite Petovan

4 years ago

What a dick. They seem to believe intellectual property is harmful/statist, which is arguably true, but that doesn't automatically warrant any collection of any publicly accessible information.

cj 🇺🇸🇨🇭

4 years ago

Lol I didn't realize this person had replied to me.

"I think you are making the assumption that I am scraping content based on the fact that I am developing a free software content scraper that anyone is invited to use."

Zing, they got me.

cj 🇺🇸🇨🇭

4 years ago

Damn this guy just can't stop replying.

Tek say resist

4 years ago

He absolutely refuses to concede a thing.

Hypolite Petovan

4 years ago

I mean, he clearly stated he didn't care about people he disagree with, not surprised he wouldn't start right now that he's getting direct negative attention.

Spencer

4 years ago

I just went to block the instance and realized I had already done so after following the #MastoAdmin hashtag. Apparently other admins banned them for transphobia and targeted harassment.

#mastoadmin

Hypolite Petovan

4 years ago

I don't have a hard time believing this report even without evidence.

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