Facebook Crawler Speaks Back

Last week we ran a story about Facebook suing to get a crawled dataset offline. This week we have a bit of a response written by Pete Warden, the guy who actually did the crawling. He followed robots.txt, and then Facebook's lawyers went after him. It's actually a quite interesting little tale and worth your time.

Comments

Re:Ballsy.

[Anonymous Coward]

Because most people that frequent this site live in fucking lala land and they think Google is saint-like. Obviously, you are an exception.

And "do no evil" only applies to getting caught doing something perceived as evil and not being able to spin it otherwise. And doing something activist-like (helping the guy in TFA) certainly isn't covered by it.

Re:Pretty naive

[Lumpy]

Actually I have, in fact I spent 6 hours in discussions with several of them including a leader of the local branch. I also met a " regional leader" whatever that is, from detroit.

I was the loudest voice they could not shout down in a local meeting. I would not shut up which bothered them.

In fact most of them I have talked to don't even know the real issues they are supposedly against. If you can point me at some that are actually informed and understand what theyare really talking about please point me at them. I have a 99% exposure to idiots that listen to and preach the Glenn Beck idiot rants. only a complete moron listens to that uneducated idiot.