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Re:Web Scraping for Me, but Not for Thee by KieranMac on Friday August 25, 2023 @06:56PM (#37268067)
Scraping other sites while prohibiting it on your own is "do what I say, not what I do" behavior, which I think is a fair, consensus understanding of what it means to be hypocritical.
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Re:Web Scraping for Me, but Not for Thee by kazinator on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:18PM (#37268230)
To convict Microsoft or Meta of hypocrisy, you need to find some official statement from the company which says that web scraping is wrong.

Hypocrisy is the professing of a moral position to which one does not conform.

If you don't preach that web scraping is wrong, and engage in it, that doesn't mean you can't defend your site against it.

Everyone shits; it is not ipso facto hypocrisy not to want it on your lawn.

Hypocrisy could be involved in the way you articulate your wish not to have it on your lawn.

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