cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
Pretty sure Elon knows this is unwinnable. Data scraping isn’t illegal, unless you can prove that the scrapers intended to cause harm to Twitter in the process. He’s doing this to harass whoever made him make an embarrassing mistake with the rate limits. He has a history of spending a stupid amount of money to (unsuccessfully) save face.
Yeah each scrape is probably just as efficient as a page load (if not more due to caching).
Also maybe twitter could show damages (and even then) but what the fuck kinda damages would this company have to be able to have a valid case?