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by Volpe 4660 days ago
GET google.com

What's returned is data physically on a private server. I am not authorized to access that server.

But the internet would be a pretty crap place if that was against the law.

As I said, metaphors to locked/unlocked public/private don't make sense. But happy for you to keep stretching this analogy until it fits.