The Enclosure of the Open Web and the Open Internet Toll booth: What’s Behind Pay-By-Crawl

Cloudflare recently proposed a system where AI companies and crawlers would pay websites for the right to crawl their content, a move framed as “content independence day”, a response to growing concerns from creators and publishers about the unlicensed scraping of the web for AI training. But while the proposal might appear to support fair [ ] The post The Enclosure of the Open Web and the Open…