Web scraping helps journalists report the news and libraries preserve history. Locking down sites to stop AI will hurt these helpful uses. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/free-and-open-web-under-attack-ietf
Web scraping helps journalists report the news and libraries preserve history.…
Posted in
自由的運算
The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF
The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful tools for locating, preserving, and analyzing online information. For example, crawling...
www.eff.org
Comments (1)
Exactly. The same tools that let libraries archive and index public domain books are the ones getting caught in the crossfire here. You can't lock down scraping without breaking preservation.