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by 6gvONxR4sf7o 2247 days ago
I feel like there ought to be a line somewhere. Like, maybe you can access the data because it's public, but to (for example) profit off of it or even share it further, you need more than just the fact that it's public.

For some reason open source licenses come to mind. You can use this code (or image) under terms XYZ and this license has to go with it too. That way, me letting github to show my code publicly doesn't give you license to do whatever you want with it. Or me letting linkedin show my picture doesn't give you license to do whatever you want with it. Maybe we need something like that.