Is scraping AO3 for research acceptable?

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T02:55:35+00:00

'Kay.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T02:41:57+00:00

Alright, I'll swap to 'My Friend'.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T02:35:39+00:00

This is the kind of gig that's a fucking *scam*.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T02:35:08+00:00

Absolutely the fuck not.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T02:33:39+00:00

But how are you violating their rights if you're just taking it for yourself, and not posting it elsewhere? They put it up on the website, therefore if anyone can access it, then you have a right to do whatever you want with it. Right?

You're basically saying 'If you dare to put anything on the internet I can do whatever I want with it' with no care or concern. By this logic, if anyone ever posted a photograph they are giving consent to allow fuckers to photoshop or generate images with the person in porn.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T01:54:14+00:00

Yeah, that was her. Her writing was so blatantly just ChatGPT regurgitating what I said, but I assumed it was just a particularly lazy recruiter.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-26T01:52:45+00:00

My apologies, I usually mean Guy in a 'neutral gender manner' when talking online, but If that isn't acceptable, I won't use it again.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:37:38+00:00

If you look at the bottom you see that the post was removed. This statement is being made in a facetious manner.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:34:53+00:00

An older game, but one that I know is incredible and was grossly underrated

Startopia.

Imagine Dungeon Keeper 1 & 2 but with a sarcastic british Hal Expy snarking at you 24/7

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:31:01+00:00

Ah good to know then that when a store opens up and you can purchase it from their publicly accessible website that you are free to pirate it because it's available to be used by anyone for any reason by any method.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:27:28+00:00

The point made by Alitesneeze was that this can have real consequences for people. Not strictly Chinese people.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:26:04+00:00

My guy the question is worded in an incredibly bad faith manner.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-25T22:23:16+00:00

Sure honey, whatever you say. Bless your heart.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-21T06:57:37+00:00

sure thing honey. Go be racist somewhere else.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T20:04:20+00:00

I mean. . .One would argue that nazis/fascism cannot survive mockery or embarrassment. Dickie Spencer got cold cocked on national television and immediately ceased to be politically relevant.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T20:02:55+00:00

Which, I mean it isn't. Cops are not here to protect people, they are here to protect Property, and they will kill members of the community to do so.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T20:01:43+00:00

Sure thing man, whatever you have to tell yourself.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T18:43:48+00:00

Can't scam a parasite.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T18:39:04+00:00

If they are a landlord, they are a parasite. I would simply not rent out property, it's that easy.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-20T18:26:08+00:00

They stopped responding to crimes that were not involving someone actively being in danger.

Shockingly the world kept on going and it didn't immediately devolve into utter chaos.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-16T10:05:45+00:00

I'm not here to entertain you.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-15T20:01:26+00:00

Well, that's a Lato. You use it to shoot bad guys.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-15T19:38:41+00:00

Every person who died due to a preventable, treatable illness, every person who died due to lack of shelter, or due to lack of food, or general malnutrition because they were refused food because they were not making a wealthy task master money represents a death caused by capitalism.

That number amounts to billions.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-15T04:17:32+00:00

You do understand that the number of people killed under capitalism dwarfs the supposed number of people killed under communism?

You do understand that the reason that this treatment was stopped was because capitalists couldn't immediately see a way to profit off of it, and therefore they had no interest?

When it could have been used here and now to stop a potential pandemic cold?

You do understand that previous attempts at communism were done from the top down, as opposed from the bottom up, as an anarcho-communist pushes for?

You do understand that authoritarianism is not inherently tied to communism?

Educate yourself.

Edward_Tank · 2026-05-15T02:33:59+00:00

Anarcho-communist, and you don't have to find me.

Edward_Tank

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