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Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence
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this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2026
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Aaron was not charged with scraping public servers, he was charged with unauthorized access. He "hacked" the server. Meta just scraped publicly accessible information.
Bruh, can you lick metas boots any harder? There's so many examples of them using unauthorized access even long before llm's were a thing...but even if that wasn't the case, they just fucking bragged about their "ai" hacking other companies. Stop spreading lies for the billionaires, it's pathetic.