Comment by throw0101a

> Taking literal the entirety of human thought and existence, distilling it, and reselling it to you piecemeal with whatever god forsaken manipulation that corporations are likely to apply to it.

From earlier this month, "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence":

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49379550 1700 points by speckx 9 days ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 403 comments