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32. I believe you're looking at this from a "comm" perspective - capturing communications traffic.

What is happening at our level is just pure web scraping. Anyone can do it. I do it. Google and everyone else does it. So does the US government (and every other one that cares.)

DU is not paywalled and has no enforceable constraints on who is spidering the content.

Facebuck, NYT, etc. put up paywalls which "inhibit" access but you only need to look at the plethora of archival sites to realize these walls are easily breached.

Yes, looking at internet traffic at the ISP level (ATT, Verizon, etc.) may be constrained by the "laws" but those laws are only for normies.