Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site

https://lemmy.world/post/18155394

Reddit CEO says Microsoft needs to pay to search the site - Lemmy.World

> Reddit says Microsoft’s Bing, Anthropic, and Perplexity have scraped its data without permission. “It has been a real pain in the ass to block these companies.”

It’s not your data.

Fuck off.

I mean it literally is. People post it there voluntarily knowing that. It’s what keeps the lights on.

Sort of, but not really. From the Reddit ToS:

By submitting Your Content to the Services, you represent and warrant that you have all rights, power, and authority necessary to grant the rights to Your Content contained within these Terms. Because you alone are responsible for Your Content, you may expose yourself to liability if you post or share Content without all necessary rights.

You retain any ownership rights you have in Your Content, but you grant Reddit the following license to use that Content:

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User Agreement - September 25, 2023 - Reddit

Beyond that, if you are serving webpages with data on them, you don’t get to decide what people do with those pages. They can’t stop search engines from scraping
Just to nitpick, they can stop scraping, anyone can. However, doing so would require implementing barriers that tend to also negatively effect sites that are dependent on being discovered and browsed.
you can decide who you serve pages to