X updates its Terms to prohibit crawling/scraping of its data

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• teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s publicly accessible it’s scrape-able. He already tried to make tweets not publicly accessible and look how long that lasted.

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  • olympicyes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not even clear that it’s illegal to scrape publicly available data, so I don’t know what the TOS would be enforcing.

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    • coffee_poops@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It didn’t have to be illegal for them to sue you for violating its policies. It would be a civil suit for damages.

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  • Kuro@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep, would never remember on the odd occasions I would look at Twitter, then just leave the site after being promoted to login

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• Darkard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I hope someone makes some manic bot that scrapes every last tweet and posts it on a duplicate site call Y

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  • SinningStromgald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Might as well go while hog and do the entire alphabet. Then do one for every iteration of every letter combination.

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    • Ignacio@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Library of Babel.

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  • ZeroMmX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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• veloxization@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  He’s still mad at those researchers for scraping the data that shows that ever since he took over, the antisemitism, racism and general bigotry has gone up on the platform.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good luck enforcing that.

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  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let the Supreme Court enforce it ;)

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    • Sanctus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It should, but it won’t.

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• tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How on earth will do they plan on enforcing that? xD

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t have to enforce it. If someone says bad things about Twitter by analysing their content, Twitter can sue them scraping.

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    • IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Our interns spent 500 hours collecting the raw data”.

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• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Is this like some kind of reverse psychology shit, where a demand to not scrape or crawl the data is supposed to make people go oh, yeah, I must be missing some great data! instead of staying away from it in droves because it is the cesspool it has now become?

  I mean yeah, there is some fraction of good material there, but increasingly it is just the worst that society has to offer, the cockroaches that came scurrying out when Trump turned the light on for them.

  As an individual I want no part of that, yet it seems to me that before you’d spend time scraping or crawling data, you’d actually want the data. I would rather scrape catshit off my shoe than scrape that hot mess. At least catshit is more honest, and chances are lower that I will have to pick swastikas out of it.

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• Jaysyn@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is hilariously unenforceable as long as Twitter is on the public internet.

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• 7fb2adfb45bafcc01c80@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I thought this was an article about the X Windows system based on the article. Boy are those two similar.

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  • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You could always join wayland.social

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  • MJBrune@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Realistically, very little people know about x windows system even less care about it.

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• pseudorandom@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Or just stop using X all together.

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• dingleberry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just update robot.txt coward!

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  • Iwasondigg@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Took a look at their robots.txt, it appears to block all bots except Google.

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• cheese_greater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Crawling for me, not thee!

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• BlinkerFluid@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  don’t!

  You heard him, scrape more.

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• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So he’s going to sue google then?

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• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When Elon bought Twitter I was hopeful- I strongly believe the world needs an open, free-speech based, ‘public square’. The problem with the Internet right now is many ‘public squares’ are privately owned, and those private companies cater to advertisers more than users.

  Sadly I don’t think it’s worked out that well. I think Twitter is probably better off than they were, but you can’t have a public square without openness. And while Twitter/X is now more free, it’s also less open.

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  • SuddenlyBlowGreen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah, well, Elon showed you how much he actually values free speech.

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  • ruckblack@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “more free” my dude people who pay $8 per month get their replies boosted up above everyone else. What are you talking about?

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    • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.fmhy.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More free in that the moderation doesn’t have a bias. I think any bias is harmful, be it Left or Right leaning. I much prefer the current approach of fact checking posts with community notes over hiding posts that are deemed undesirable.

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