Sounds like you have zero empathy for the real costs AI is driving and feelings that this creates for website owners. How about you pony up and pay for your scraping?
> If you really are not comfortable with the consequences your personal labor you should probably leave your job or not take it in the first place. This sounds like a decadent rationalization for highly compensated people that want to feel moral while being lazy.
Three words that trap many: Employer Provided Healthcare.
That's like saying the foundation supported a scientist working on building more coal-fired power plants. ETH, along with crypto in general, is harmful to society. Weird flex.
What outcomes do actions like this encourage? Well, it encourages controversial writers to stay in the shadows, hide their real identities, lest the vigilante mobs find them. This outcome also encourages people in general to say less, creates an atmosphere of self-censorship, and so harms our free society.
Whatever happened to "I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."?
If we can not learn to tolerate others and respect their opinions, even those we find distasteful or deplorable, we will reap the consquences, and stagnate as a culture.
That’s it.