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> websites really should be able to tell google how they're allowed to use the scraped data

Isn't it a bit more complicated than that though? While you certainly aren't entitled to republish things, you (ie anyone and everyone) have traditionally been free to consume public material in whatever way you see fit. The precedent from the recent LinkedIn case regarding scraping supports this.

Also you focus on Google, but anyone with sufficient resources can scrape the public web (anti-bot cat and mouse games notwithstanding I suppose).

(Paywalled sites that allow Google to scrape them for search indexing purposes are an interesting edge case though.)