Comment by mschuster91

> That's a matter for law enforcement and organizations shouldn't have their own badly implemented versions of it.

Theoretically, yes.

Practically? Law enforcement can be ignorant, incompetent or slow as molasses, or a combination of all three of them. Besides, some places like the EU impose specific requirements on what happens with certain kinds of speech, especially anything glorifying or calling for violence, so as an organization, you have to have people and procedures to deal with it.

> They don't need to be organizing events in the first place. That's already itself a completely unnecessary money sink.

It was a core factor, other than Jimbo Wales wanting to distance himself/his company that hosted Wikipedia (Bomis) from it a bit, why Wikimedia got founded in the first place.

> Making unauthorized requests 100% static is not rocket science.

The problem is the bots are not respecting robots.txt and instead do stuff like load the source diff pages. It does not make any sense for AI training and likely pollutes the database, but unfortunately the diff pages are among the most expensive to render, the worse the older the requested diff is.