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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by electroly on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:20AM (#31027407)
> Well... Aren't the twitter bots then the bad actor?

Of course. But what does that matter? All you've done is assign blame. The person still had their game experience ruined. With a different design, that might not have been possible. This is like spam protection -- it's not Gmail's fault that you're receiving spam, but they're the ones in a position to stop it.

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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by shuntress on Thursday April 14, 2022 @10:47AM (#31027723)
At a certain point, it becomes more efficient to consider it societies problem.

If bad actors in person went door-to-door attempting to break in by picking locks, would you say that it is purely the responsibility of the homeowner to ensure that their locks are strong enough?

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Re:The New York Times has requested that I shut the archive ... by electroly on Thursday April 14, 2022 @06:41PM (#31034316)
At a "certain point" sure, but I don't think Wordle spoilers rise to the level of "society-level" problems. If we're not at that point with spam email, I can't imagine we're at that point with Wordle spoilers.
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