-discussion. At this time, I generally boycot any online web services that make it
-intentionally hard bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
-Examples of badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
-[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]].
-
-My current personal policy is to use these services in read-only mode, without
-helping them collect even more information.
-
-Call me a fundamentalist for going through these hoops, but I believe I'm acting in
-my best personal interest. I //do// care about my meta-self, and you?
+debate. At this time, I avoid web services that disallow
+bulk access to data created collaboratively by their users.
+Examples of such badly behaving sites are [[http://www.imdb.com | IMDB]] and
+[[http://flickr.com | Flickr]]: both have been created by us users, but try downloading
+substantial portions of their data... On the other end of the spectrum,
+[[http://wikipedia.org | Wikipedia]] provides an interface to dump the
+entire database, including the edit history. This is what we should demand
+from any online resource built collaboratively.
+
+My current personal policy is to use those non-reciprocal services in read-only
+mode, thus avoiding to grow their information base with my help.
+
+Promoting users' autonomy is in the long-term interest of a free Internet.
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