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by pcthrowaway 1205 days ago
> If you climb aboard a rollercoaster that hasn't seen any maintenance in 20 years and you get decapitated, I'm pretty sure the park is still legally responsible

> "any script, robot, spider, Web crawler, screen scraper, automated query program or other automated device or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

But the CRA already anticipated this and explicitly disallowed headless clients

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> ...or any manual process to monitor or copy the content contained in any online services"

So, not allowed to use Ctrl+C on their website?

You're not allowed to write things down on a notebook using a pencil.
Or monitor them.
Not a Canadian, but this just seems like a chicken running around with its head cut off [1]. A one-legged duck swimming in a circle.

Why does a government want to protect itself from hacking liability via ToS in the first place. Couldn't they, you know, just pass a law saying they're not liable?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken