Electronic Frontier Foundation5d ago
EFF and our allies are fighting back against proposal to replace neutral internet standards that encourage openness into restrictive requirements designed to monetize internet access. Help protect the rules that keep the web free and open. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/free-and-open-web-under-attack-ietf
The Free and Open Web Is Under Attack at the IETF

The ability to access publicly available information using automated tools is a central value and benefit of a free and open internet. Automated access—often called crawling or scraping—powers important, useful tools for locating, preserving, and analyzing online information. For example, crawling...

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@eff I'm disappointed to see the EFF opposing AI preference signals for web services. Internet freedom is good because it empowers the individuals connected through the Internet; restricting efforts to allow people to control data use for AI training is antithetical to that aim. I note that EFF's own site makes use of robots.txt to control which parts of the site it wants to be crawled; I wonder whether EFF would also have opposed RFC9309 had the Robots protocol not already been embedded for 30 years?
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