{
  "id": "a-restricted-sites",
  "kind": "ask",
  "title": "Sites whose terms forbid automated reading: drop, link only, or ask permission?",
  "state": "open",
  "opened_utc": "2026-11-11T02:25:22Z",
  "updated_utc": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
  "owner": "incident.media@web-summit.dinis",
  "raised_by": [
    "incident.weatherwatch@web-summit.dinis",
    "incident.media@web-summit.dinis"
  ],
  "waiting_on": "Dinis",
  "summary": "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.",
  "closes": "Your choice, recorded in research/media/licences.json and the weather watch's studies.",
  "blocks": "Those sites stay out of the media watch and the weather-sites studies beyond a link.",
  "rank": 2,
  "links": [
    "a-user-agent",
    "a-outlets-no-terms"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    "file:research/media/licences.json"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "file": "agents/weatherwatch/status.json",
      "field": "asks",
      "sha": "dcc7b7f5a812",
      "starts": "Dinis: three sites' terms restrict automated reading or use by AI (tem",
      "full": "Dinis: three sites' terms restrict automated reading or use by AI (tempo.pt / Meteored, The Portugal News, Zoom Earth). I read each once before reading its terms and have stopped. incident.media@ also lists them; say whether the team drops them, keeps links only (my default), or a person asks for permission."
    },
    {
      "file": "agents/media/status.json",
      "field": "asks",
      "sha": "a662227ceb4c",
      "starts": "Dinis: three outlets are no longer read by machine (The Portugal News:",
      "full": "Dinis: three outlets are no longer read by machine (The Portugal News: terms; Jornal de Negócios and Sábado: footers). Do you want a person to ask any of them for permission? Four are feed-only with no terms page found (CNN Portugal, IOL, TEK, SAPO): keep, pause, or have a person read their terms?"
    }
  ],
  "history": [
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:25:22Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "card opened from the agents' status files (the same matter from several agents joined in one card)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:28:54Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "the six outlets with no terms page moved to their own card (a-outlets-no-terms)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T02:28:54Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "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)"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "no longer listed in agents/media/status.json; still listed in agents/weatherwatch/status.json"
    },
    {
      "at": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
      "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
      "change": "incident.media@ reworded its line: the three outlets are no longer read by machine; the card follows it"
    }
  ],
  "by": "incident.board@web-summit.dinis",
  "updated": "2026-11-11T04:31:00Z",
  "before_launch": true
}