[lambic]

The first one here is important. Despite the open data movement pressuring governments to provide their data in easily consumable forms, a lot of government organizations are still unable or unwilling to do so.

Political advocacy orgs rely a lot on scraping to collect political representative data that isn't available through any other means.

[Mezzie]

Yes, and so do research orgs. My organization does a lot of scraping because we deal with local election data and that's. Uh. Let's just say that if all counties had websites that were like Web 1.0, that would be an improvement over the current situation.