[klpr]

No, it isn't that simple. The scale and totality of the scraping is out of reach for a human.

If you previously interacted with people on this issue, you must know that.

It is fair for a single human to breathe, but not for a machine to use all oxygen on this planet at once, killing everyone else in the process.

[rom-antics]

If I woke up tomorrow and breathed all the oxygen, nobody else could breathe. But If I woke up tomorrow and read all the websites on the internet, it wouldn't stop other people from reading them too.

Air is zero-sum. Knowledge is not.

[anonymouskimmer]

> But If I woke up tomorrow and read all the websites on the internet, it wouldn't stop other people from reading them too.

If you became the first line, go-to source for the information of those websites, those websites would stop getting click-throughs. Eventually it would become less and less worthwhile (economically or emotionally) for the people keeping those sites running to keep them running. It would become more and more difficult for people to find those sites even if they are running, or even the archives of those sites.

So yes, eventually you'd stop people from reading them too.

[ergonaught]

It is in fact that simple. There are dozens, hundreds, perhaps thousands of legitimate, genuine, serious, real reasons to be concerned and "want something to be done". This isn't it.

"Learning is unfair" is not an argument you want to win.

[wiseowise]

Love how you’ve conveniently ignored

> The scale and totality of the scraping is out of reach for a human.

[thrill]

Because it's conveniently irrelevant.

[wiseowise]

Why?

[nohuck13]

> It is in fact that simple.

Why?