Hey #admins, get a load of the "ethics statement" on this asshole's fediverse scraping project:

"Publishing your toots/messages on a server without marking them private or requiring authentication and thus making them available to the web is an act of affirmative consent to allowing others to download those toots/messages [...]"

I recommend suspending the author's sneak.berlin instance.

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@tek "We do not have a right to be forgotten, as we do not have a right to delete legitimately-obtained files from the hard drives of other people."

EU GDPR, Article 17 would say otherwise

Which might be handy for him to read considering he's in the EU

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