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Re:Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does... by yepyeppers on Thursday August 20, 2026 @10:24PM (#49382948)
There’s also the fact that Swartz was physically trespassing and attaching unauthorized machines into networking closets to run scraping on a university network to exfiltrate the scrapes to the public, versus just scraping public facing web from the public web to train a model. That’s a little different and while the feds were heavy-handed against Swartz these computer crime laws were well known and it was less heavy handed than the hacker crackdowns of the 90s if you want to look at precedents.

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