I personally love the idea of a free and open internet and also have no issues with bots scraping or training off of my data.

I would much rather have it open for all, including companies, than the coming dystopian landscape of paywall gates. I don’t care about respecting robots.txt or any other types of rules. If it’s on the internet it’s for all to consume. The moment you start carving out certain parties is the moment it becomes a slippery slope.

For what it’s worth, I think CF will lose this battle and fundamentally feeding the bots will just become normal and wanted