Wait - so you are saying that information on the public internet isn’t public? Man, I wish people would remember the origin of the web and the entire reason it exists. If you don’t want information public, protect it - otherwise, I say it’s fair game.
Remember the OP article is about a system that is designed to completely and directly circumvent protections.
If an organization puts a series of processes in place to prevent scrapers from wholesale taking data in violation of terms of service, and you develop a 5 server cluster of 200x 4G modems it's no longer "fair game" and you're directly being unethical in your use of someone else's services.
Yeah, I think it's fair to say that in the presence of anti-bot measures (whether they work or not) that the content on the website isn't public anymore.
Available to someone meeting certain criteria (student discount, senior discount) doesn't mean available to anyone. I see no reason that "not available to be consumed by autonomous agents" is somehow invalid in a way that unlimited refills is only available to humans and not robots.
I live in a ski town, and while I agree with you on the major problems that exist (here, too), _some_ of the 'living in your car in the alley' is the ski-bum ethos and viewed as a right of passage. Live to ski!
It’s true that mostly these are young people who choose to live there, and have party oriented lifestyles. I think packed 4 to an apartment would be more reasonable than homeless though.
Having friends that patrolled, ran lift and ski bummed in the 00s and 10s that's what they'd do. Pack people in party houses/apartments. The only time you'd sleep out of a car was when you were at another resort and didn't have any connections. *These were not the people who were working in at the restaurants or retail shops.
I'm curious what you would suggest as an alternative. Completely flat orgs have worked occasionally in the past(?) but in general I hear horror stories about those as well.
To be clear, the principle is one of many lenses that you can view the world through. I suggest it to be used as but one tool in your mental tool box. However, it is a good tool.
If you have read it, then I am also at a loss as to what to do with 'the clueless'.
I'd suggest trying to engage in more 'powertalk' with 'the sociopaths' and trying to mirror the path of Ryan the Intern. But that deep cynicism just rubs me the wrong way. Perhaps I am more of a Toby in the end.
I saw a great analogy on Twitter:
Imagine Twitter as the anti-homosexual cake shop and Q-Anon/Trump/Radical Right as the couple who want a cake for their gay wedding.
Specifically, how does banning people for their actions work well as an analogy for banning someone for who they are (and you must take that for granted, because that's the legal frameworks opinions on the matter)?
That's also an even worse example because the supreme court found in favor of the cake shop.
I think it is the reverse. If a baker can't be forced to bake a rainbow cake (for members of a protected class) then AWS most certainly cannot be forced to provide service to people espousing violent political action (not a protected class.)
