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miningtcupyesterday at 6:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

I think that this is different because Nitter uses real X accounts for scraping, rather than publicly available data.


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mitxelatoday at 12:00 AM

That is still a form of publicly available.

Tostinoyesterday at 7:01 PM

Explain to me why that matters at all in an ethical sense. Especially given the scraping / pirating that's gone on by all of these companies in the last number of years.

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