RE: Correcting some incorrect things on Infowars RE: Alex Jones, David Knight, Owen Shroyer, etc.
ARPA evolved into DARPA, and I'm guessing that is why Knight used the term DARPANET even though it was in fact ARPANET. Many times I'll use the term War Department, because it more accurately reflects the true mission of the DOD.
It's not to be misleading, but rather to be more accurate. Knight probably knows that most people don't know what ARPA is, so to drive it home he said DARPANET, that's my guess anyhow.
It also puts emphasis on the fact, that the internet has pretty much been weaponized since it's inception. Seeing as how the agency who created it was funded by the 'War Department' (or DOD).
As far as scraping goes, I don't think that just any ole bot can scrap all of FB's data this because of the various privacy levels. Unless of course the bot had admin level access to every single facebook user account. It doesn't even make sense that FB would need to scrap the data since the users are submitting the information to them directly.
My guess is that FB immediately takes submitted data and collates it into various categories for "advertising purposes".
Wikipedia:
So yes it has changed it's name several times. The predecessor to the internet though was never called DARPANET, simply ARPANET.
Yeah, but I haven't seen anyone making the claim that it has. I specifically kept referring to public information in my post (if anyone can view it then it can be scraped), and mentioned access levels briefly which would coincide with your mention of admin level access.
My goal here was to explain what scraping is, and that it is not difficult. It is frequently done. Hell a lot of people write little programs for steem interfacing that scrape the steemd.com output.
Infowars was talking about scraping as a bigger and more nefarious statement than it was when Zuckerberg said it. Pretty much every website that is linked or referenced somewhere else on some other website is scraped by things regularly. So Zuckerberg saying it was more deserving of a "No shit?" said with sarcasm than concern that he just said something scary. If you have a website. It is highly likely it is being scraped from time to time. About the only way it will not be is if it is on no search engines, it is not linked to from any other websites that themselves are scraped, or it is in an intentional custom encryption format that a standard HTML scraping will be insufficient to process it, but then regular browsers would not be able to use it without extensions/plugins.
Then Alex talking about how he was taught about scraping in High School when I know how old he is and the term scraping would not have been used at that time. Perhaps he learned about parsing.