Meanwhile, every time a worker - or their ally - is tricked into calling scraping "stealing," they do the bosses' job for them. And the bosses - being remorseless seekers of return to capital - don't care about the collateral damage in their war on scraping.
Scraping is how we find out if Facebook is making money by selling paid political disinformation:
https://pluralistic.net/2021/08/06/get-you-coming-and-going/#potemkin-research-program
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Cory Doctorow /
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