The more people that call out derail and divide attempts, the better this site gets.
People, in general, need to stop being such fucking wusses about calling out bad behavior, as proven in DC right now. Thanks for the support.
Who are the researchers and what thesis are they exploring?
A Charter is a grant, from the people, for any for-profit organization to exist, it comes with certain restrictions and it can be revoked at any time.
Charter
a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power [The People], by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.
Per @Qwertox who parented this thread with useful context, it doesn't sound like "open to all" access. That's material.
E: Here's the quote:
> This provision requires large online platforms to provide researchers with immediate access to publicly available data
Read the last half of that. The court agrees.
> information theoretically available by laboriously clicking through thousands of posts
Subject to confirmation, "researcher" != "all of the people."
That was @atlantic's point.
From my review [1] [2], it appears that "researchers" is undefined.
Ultimately, can anyone apply for full access for free? I'm sure a lot of people across the political spectrum are curious about this.
If you have a clarification, great. If not, the point stands. X already has a firehose API solution [3]. While it's pay to access, it's unclear what compliance steps these researchers will have to jump through or whether anyone can just override this revenue stream for X and force it to turn over proprietary data that would otherwise be paywalled.
[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/german-civil-activists-...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976439
[3] https://mashable.com/article/twitter-elon-musk-paid-enterpri...