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>Data was collected through Discord's public API, adhering to ethical guidelines

How is it ethical to break Discord's terms of service? An ethical researcher would respect any contracts that they agreed to and would not violate them to collect more data.

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Which ethical system demands that researchers from the DCC/UFMG not breach an unaffiliated commercial ToS during their research?

One that recognizes that lying and tricking people is wrong to do.

edit: Whoops

Awesome analysis dude! I'm sure the judge will love that when discord sues these guys.

He said _ethical_, not _legal_.

Would you agree abusive ToS's by massive corpos are unethical? What about the Disney+ ToS hiding a binding arbitration agreement preventing you from suing them? [0].

Or are you one of those "my personal ethics are whatever the law says" folk?

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

The last guy who scraped discord like this was a freak who also got sued to hell by them.

The difference is they ran a private service to profit off the scraped data, and explicitly marketed it as a "dox-for-hire" service, so ethically I think the situations are quite different (the researchers explitly took steps to censor usernames in this dataset)

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