this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2026
179 points (97.4% liked)
Technology
86290 readers
4054 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Inaccurate headline. The bill doesn't ban web scraping, it just requires that bots accurately identify themselves through the user agent string, and maybe some additional requirements to disclose the purpose of scraping the data.
And there's a fine if the company doesn't comply which is basically now gonna be considered the cost of doing business
That’s still a win. Make the act less lucrative. Fewer entremenureial types to take after it.
Oh I'm not saying it's not better than doing nothing. I'm just saying I'm still disatisfied with the results because of the socio economic implications of businesses being treated legally like people.
I agree with you though.