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In light of hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn [1], I'm not sure that Elon has a cause of action that he's likely to succeed on with respect to sueing scrapers.

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HiQ_Labs_v._LinkedIn,



Unless I misunderstood, he might actually have a case.

> In a second ruling in April 2022 the Ninth Circuit affirmed its decision.[5][6] In a November 2022 ruling the Ninth Circuit ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement and a settlement agreement was reached between the two parties. [7]


If they go behind the paywall and start scraping, he'll be able to sue and have a chance. I wonder how many scrapers will continue to scrape...




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