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Maybe a way to combat poisoning would be to only train your bots on content consensually given? But that just isn't enough for you, is it. Maybe think about WHY people use tarpits (it's explained: crawlers ignore the agreement to not crawl. It's literally a defense against an invading force).

All this really reads like the main thing these AI programmers are after is power. The power to violate consent. It really feels like that's what it's all about. They agree to not scrape content and then do it anyway.

Like, the tariff thing got us mad, but the 51st state thing? It's got us seething.

Liberals, progressives, even most of the Conservatives are all united on this.

We're sharing lists of Canadian-owned alternatives to American brands.

We're cancelling tourist trips to the US (one lady in a news story said she cancelled a trip to Florida for six and doesn't regret losing $1,300 due to the cancellation).

And if we have to go to the US, such as the couple who's selling their California home? We're taking Canadian flights instead.

Some travel agencies have seen as much as a 40% decrease in bookings of flights from Canada to the US, and it's estimated it'll affect at least $2.1 billion dollars of the travel industry alone (not counting the tourism side of things like Disney trips and hotel bookings).