WaPo article: https://archive.is/wip/sgViP
Company owner Elon Musk tweeted that the change was a “temporary emergency measure” to deter third-party scraping of data from the social media platform. “We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!” Musk wrote.
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I've simply come around to the "pitchfork solution" hypothesis which states that any socio-political problem ought to be solvable by a pitchfork waving mob congregating in front of your house.
We are unaccustomed to that being a solution to our problems because we have resolved that power must be so diffuse that it cannot be. Yet the drive to send a pitchfork waving mob to someone's home remains, waiting for someone to pick up that crown currently lying in the mud.
That only works when the regime is on your side.