The good thing about it is you don't need to read past the first few words. Which saves us all a lot of time and effort in the long-run. A weird sort of way, it's honest (albeit impulsive) discourse. Most people nowadays seem to hide what they really mean behind double-speak.
The bad thing is reading the rest of their comments makes me actually worried. We've all been in a bad place in our heads and some of us know just how f***ed up it can get.
So if know why, then why ask why in the first place?
It's always interesting to see that MAGA shitheads hate-read this forum.
A friend used to say: "No such thing as a stupid question, only stupid answers"
Oh, don't worry friend, history rhymes, and you're going to get your "payback". In fact, you're getting it right now, only not in the way you were expecting. This time around the Old World is going to be coming to the rescue of the New. Rescue it from the same fascist ideology.
Let me know how you plan on paying us back. But don't worry - we're not going to blackmail you into it. Europeans are more decent than that - nowadays we prefer the negotiations table. Which doesn't mean we've forgotten how to use guns. We're the ones who taught you how to wage war, after all.
By the way, Europe used to have its own ICE thing going on but we decided to disband it in 1945. Not sure why, but I've heard Americans had something do with it. Ironic, isn't it?
Says here something about teeth and watches.
I don't get it - where'd they get the teeth and watches from?
Why not just join at this point? Apes together strong!
How dare NATO countries not allow to be invaded?! Don't they know might is right?
Wait...
Looks like bait
I'd rather be an ape a 100 times more than a fascist. At least then I'd have some reasonable excuse for my actions.
That's not the point. The point is content scraping (and crawling) is the cornerstone of the contemporary information environment. It's how we got to this technological paradigm in the first place.
This whole "people are bypassing paywalls" is a badly evidenced non-issue, and all too convenient. What these companies are really saying is "Content scraping is bad when others do it. Only I and other big fish get to do it and profit billions out of it. Fuck ordinary citizens. Fuck everyone and everything but me and my dreams of endless wealth and power."
To be fair.
We don't know and we won't find out.