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Brandon Butler
@bb.usefairuse.com

Anonymous bots and AI-powered bots are a fact of life on the web. Like all tech, sometimes they are misused or abused, but for years they have also been a crucial tool for journalism and scholarship. New bot regulations shouldn't move unless they protect beneficial bots.

Re:Create Coalition@recreatecoalition.bsky.social

Journalists have used web scraping for 20+ years to expose corruption, track lobbyists, and reveal discrimination. Crawler bans like the Stealth Bot Prohibition Act risk cutting off tools newsrooms use to hold power accountable. Our infographic explains why ➡️ recreatecoalition.org/infographic/...

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1G-N15 ⬡
@1gn15.com

The term "beneficial" here should not be decided by the website owners. Otherwise, it could be used as a cudgel to block those that the website owners do not like, which recreates the issue Also, is DDoS already illegal? Can't that already apply to most of the concerns, the overloading of servers?