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Re:Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of ha... by pcthrowaway on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @09:26PM (#35077665)
> If you climb aboard a rollercoaster that hasn't seen any maintenance in 20 years and you get decapitated, I'm pretty sure the park is still legally responsible

> "any script, robot, spider, Web crawler, screen scraper, automated query program or other automated device or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

But the CRA already anticipated this and explicitly disallowed headless clients

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Re:Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of ha... by kmoser on Thursday March 09, 2023 @12:15AM (#35078521)
> ...or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

So, not allowed to use Ctrl+C on their website?

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Re:Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of ha... by chaosite on Thursday March 09, 2023 @03:43AM (#35079405)
You're not allowed to write things down on a notebook using a pencil.
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Re:Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of ha... by hunter2_ on Thursday March 09, 2023 @09:29AM (#35081505)
Or monitor them.
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Re:Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of ha... by nottathrowaway3 on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:36AM (#35090790)
Not a Canadian, but this just seems like a chicken running around with its head cut off [1]. A one-legged duck swimming in a circle.

Why does a government want to protect itself from hacking liability via ToS in the first place. Couldn't they, you know, just pass a law saying they're not liable?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken

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