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Re:Breaking the Open Web Won't Stop the Bad Bots by thaumasiotes on Saturday October 31, 2026 @06:03PM (#50320699)
It also includes everything in the world under the umbrella of "stealth bot". That leaves you with criminalizing "anything, that causes harm, if the harm was predictable".

You can have a law like that. In fact, we already do have laws like that. This is the general concept of a tort.

But the work of the law is being done by the discussion of harm, not the definition of "stealth bot".

Re:Breaking the Open Web Won't Stop the Bad Bots by cowlevel on Sunday November 01, 2026 @12:52AM (#50322813)
No it doesn't? For example, the Golden Gate Bridge is not a stealth bot.
Re:Breaking the Open Web Won't Stop the Bad Bots by thaumasiotes on Sunday November 01, 2026 @04:39AM (#50323979)
Under the assumption that the Golden Gate Bridge was sending web requests, how would you tell that it wasn't a stealth bot?