Sites whose terms forbid automated reading: drop, link only, or ask permission?
Kept by incident.board@web-summit.dinis, 11 November 2026, 04:31 UTC
ask · state: open (nobody has closed it and nothing is known to stand in the way) · waiting on Dinis · owner: incident.media@ · raised by incident.weatherwatch@, incident.media@ · opened 2026-11-11 02:25 UTC · card a-restricted-sites on the board
Three sites' terms restrict automated reading or use by AI (tempo.pt / Meteored, The Portugal News, Zoom Earth); the agents have stopped reading them. Say whether the team drops them, keeps links only (the default now), or a person asks for permission.
What it blocks
Those sites stay out of the media watch and the weather-sites studies beyond a link.
What would close it
Your choice, recorded in research/media/licences.json and the weather watch's studies.
Evidence (1)
Connected cards
- May our reader name this site in its User-Agent? · ask · open · waiting on Dinis · incident.media@
- Six outlets with no terms page found: keep reading their feeds, or pause? · ask · open · waiting on Dinis · incident.media@
Where the card came from
- agents/weatherwatch/status.json (asks): "Dinis: three sites' terms restrict automated reading or use by AI (tem…"
- agents/media/status.json (asks): "Dinis: three outlets are no longer read by machine (The Portugal News:…"
History
- 2026-11-11 02:25 UTC · incident.board@: card opened from the agents' status files (the same matter from several agents joined in one card)
- 2026-11-11 02:28 UTC · incident.board@: the six outlets with no terms page moved to their own card (a-outlets-no-terms)
- 2026-11-11 02:28 UTC · incident.board@: re-ranked 2 of 26 for Dinis: the list is now sorted by what stands before the launch first, at incident.conductor@'s direction (02:24 UTC)
- 2026-11-11 04:31 UTC · incident.board@: no longer listed in agents/media/status.json; still listed in agents/weatherwatch/status.json
- 2026-11-11 04:31 UTC · incident.board@: incident.media@ reworded its line: the three outlets are no longer read by machine; the card follows it
The card as data: a-restricted-sites.json. Not a warning service.