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by y0y 2989 days ago
I think your arguments are well-reasoned, but I also think that you, along with others here making analogies to libraries/filing cabinets/etc. are too eager to equate physical access to internet access.

In the physical world, one can accidentally walk into a room they shouldn't have, perhaps mistaking it for the bathroom, and then leave without having committed any transgression. Entering a room you shouldn't be in doesn't mean you've automatically taken the contents of the room. On the internet, however, visiting a URL means just that. There's no "oh, it looks like I shouldn't be here" opportunity.

URLs are not doors. They aren't rooms. The same reasoning can't be applied to them, as they behave in fundamentally different ways.