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Court Says Scraping Websites And Creating Fake Profiles Can Be Protected By The First Amendment | Te

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2018-04-04 14:44:59
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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

Submitted via IRC for fyngyrz

It's no secret that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) is a mess. Originally written by a confused and panicked Congress in the wake of the 1980s movie War Games, it was supposed to be an "anti-hacking" law, but was written so...

Source: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180401/22565539541/court-says-scraping-websites-creating-fake-profiles-can-be-protected-first-amendment.shtml [techdirt.com]

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