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Comment by cowlevel

1 hour ago

The proposed text makes it illegal to (not criminalises) running a stealth bot that causes harm that was predictable. This seems reasonable to me. It's legal if either the bot identifies itself, it's harmless, or it should have been harmless (you can't put up a web server that crashes on every 404 and then blame me for crashing it).

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