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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by RoyGBivCap on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:21PM (#36544604)
I can't speak for him, just relaying the information.

But I'm happy to speculate: Organizations violated the twitter TOS by scraping, and he's going to sue the organizations for it.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by codys on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:54PM (#36544957)
In light of hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn [1], I'm not sure that Elon has a cause of action that he's likely to succeed on with respect to sueing scrapers.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn,

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by _boffin_ on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:17PM (#36546087)
If they go behind the paywall and start scraping, he'll be able to sue and have a chance. I wonder how many scrapers will continue to scrape...
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by DangitBobby on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:19PM (#36546103)
Unless I misunderstood, he might actually have a case.

> In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision.[5][6] In a November 2022 ruling the Ninth Circuit ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties. [7]

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