The toxicity towards web-scraping is really what makes me lose hope in the current web. People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it - it's a complete and utter paradox. This precedent doesn't really mean much but is definitely step in the right direction.
> People want their data to be public and all of the benefits that comes with public data but then they want to chose who gets to see it - it's a complete and utter paradox. That's a complete misconception. Of course you can find manufacture inconsistent ideologies if you combine ideas from different people, but I think you'd have a difficult time finding one person who believes what you just described. What I want i…
So a group of people, joining together in a common cause, don’t have rights as members of that group?
You are contradicting yourself. Organizations are simply groups of people with a shared cause. To deny rights to the organization, you necessarily have to deny personal rights. Example: John and Sam form an organization for comic book collecting. They have a secret meeting to agree on a price to offer a potential seller of a rare comic book. Since John and Sam, Inc. “Have no rights” the seller is allowed to sit in the room during their meeting. However this violates the right of Sam to freely associate with John and his right to not have to associate with the interloper. It also violates the privacy of San and John as individuals since their private conversation — even as members of their two-man organization are now being shared with anyone who wants to sit in since, in this scenario, their organization doesn’t have rights.
It’s absurd.