So you think this task is learneable without any labeled data ("scraping and tagging skills")? After all, that's pretty much how FB, Google et. al. do it as well, throw more data & CPU power at the problem.

That is not what I said

>This competition should not be about scraping and tagging skills

Competitions that allow external data are at least partially explicitly about that. If they weren't they wouldn't allow external data (which is not exactly uncommon on kaggle).

They're explicit that this data should be shared. Obviously aiming for it to not be a part of unique contribution of the contender. They may not provide a tight enough statement about that, but it is fairly clear.