9to5Mac, a notoriously unreliable rag, claims Marco is censoring them. I should believe them... why?
There are sites Instapaper does not scrape. For example, ArsTechnica does not allow scraping of full articles. Instapaper respects this whereas other scrapers ignore ArsTechnica and scrape anyway.
My point is, just because Instapaper refuses to scrape a site does not automatically mean censorship has occurred.
>9to5Mac, a notoriously unreliable rag, claims Marco is censoring them. I should believe them... why?
Marco more or less admits to as much in an email to Buzzfeed.
>What 9to5 has consistently written about me and Instapaper goes far beyond what's acceptable, is potentially libelous, and could cause potential legal issues. This has never happened to this degree from any other site, and would certainly never happen from a professionally run publication.
>I will not tolerate their behavior or the potential legal risks of interacting with 9to5 or Seth at all, so I removed the ability for Instapaper to interact with their site.
Now, there's room to debate whether this should be called censorship, but it's clear that 9to5Mac is blocked on InstaPaper as a direct result of what they've published on their site.
I read the link at the top of the article, which failed to explain it. Should I have realized that since the linked article is 9to5, it would of course have failed to present the basic facts underlying it's own article?
There are sites Instapaper does not scrape. For example, ArsTechnica does not allow scraping of full articles. Instapaper respects this whereas other scrapers ignore ArsTechnica and scrape anyway.
My point is, just because Instapaper refuses to scrape a site does not automatically mean censorship has occurred.