[zimpenfish]

> I find the scraping explanation plausible.

How do you explain it suddenly being a problem today and not, say, during the recent World Cup when not only the AI scraping would have been happening but el Morko himself was crowing about how much extra traffic they were handling?

[petesergeant]

Someone with deep pockets flipped the ON switch?

[gmerc]

The much simpler explanation is that elon lied again.