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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by appendix-rock on Thursday September 26, 2024 @05:56AM (#41656472)
You’re moving the goalposts. We aren’t talking about who has a right to what. We’re talking about what is and what isn’t a deranged dick move.
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Re:Wordpress.org bans WP Engine, blocks it from accessing it... by consteval on Thursday September 26, 2024 @04:08PM (#41662690)
It's not at all a dick move to block IPs that essentially DDOS your free services.

Google, Amazon, you name it do this infinite times a day with crawlers.

If you build a business on taking resources from some public source, on a large scale, you could very well be out of a business at any time. This has been the case for a long, long time. And nobody seems to take issue with it.

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