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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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Moral of the story never do anything as an individual by your name. Do it as a multi-billion dollar company with a battalion of lawyers and have fall guys. At minimum have an LLC controlled by a trust in someone else's name doing anything actionable in court.
Remember companies are people even though they can't get arrested and giving large sums of money to politicians is free speech, not bribery or corruption.
And do it in a large enough quantity that it makes financially insensitive to do it at a large scale vs small
In short just add lots of people and many steps in the way. Killing someone is bad, releasing a product / service you know will kill lots of people is just a rounding error in business.
one only has to look at the health insurance industry to see how deadly that is both for claimants and ceo's alike.