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Has AWS improved their stance around hosting resource draining robots.txt defying scrapers and spiders?

Every large company does business with many people / orgs I don't like. I'm not defending or attacking AWS or CF, but merely stating the deeper you dig the more objectionable stuff you'll find everywhere. There are shades of gray of course, but at the end of the day we're all sinners.

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I don't have a judgement in this particular case. But I really hate the nobody is perfect argument, especially considering the current political climate. We are all sinners, but we are not all equally bad sinners. Some are deplorable and some are just imperfect and there are a million shades of grey in between. And I don't know where to draw the line, but I can at least make a judgement if you are obviously far, far over that line.

I agree. It's often used as a way to dismiss concerns about a party's actions, as though all bad actions are equally bad, which is ridiculous.

fair enough, I posit the hosted nazis are very bad, but their actually impact is very small b/c there are so few of them. The hosted bots, on their own, are not very bad, but there are so many of them that their negative impact is very large.

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