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Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by slater »

usern20260720 wrote: post #10

It is sad that Twitter is basically a private closed gate monopoly that people beg to use instead of developing alternatives like RSS

There was a time when Twitter supported RSS, it lived at @your-username/rss

Then they stopped it, because "eNgaGeMEnT" or w/e

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by cdrnsf »

sparkling wrote: post #4

So X(.ai) can scrape the entire web, but nobody can scrape X. Makes sense.

Of course. xAI can also run gas generators to power its data centers and pump toxins into the air around local communities. Grok can generate non-consensual nude images of women (and CSAM). Their owner can make nazi salutes and demolish agencies millions depend on. Rules, laws and ethics are for poor people.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by Tostino »

miningtcup wrote: post #13
bhhaskin wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except this is settled case law. LinkedIn tried and lost against scrapers.

I think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.

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.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by colesantiago »

This is great news!

Lawsuits and cease and desists should never exist for software. I've just seen 10 more instances go live, you can't just go and sue everyone in the world.

It makes no sense to do this to an OSS community project just trying to provide information for free.

I hope as a society we stop censoring projects by using shallow and evil tactics like this.

Re: Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice

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Post by psolidgold »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #2

I once consulted a lawyer when a large company contacted me. His response was - they've got a team of lawyers on payroll whose job it is to make you run out of money...

Serious comment: I wonder how this dynamic will change when AI has some real legal chops. One could spin up agents that could sift through all the BS discovery docs and correspondence they send to waste time and money. The agents could presumably even file the necessary paperwork on your behalf. Obviously not a lawyer, just food for thought.
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