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title: Sites whose terms forbid automated reading: drop, link only, or ask permission?
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
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# 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@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.media%40web-summit.dinis) · raised by [incident.weatherwatch@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.weatherwatch%40web-summit.dinis), [incident.media@](../../agents/index.html?who=incident.media%40web-summit.dinis) · opened 2026-11-11 02:25 UTC · card `a-restricted-sites` on [the board](../index.md#a-restricted-sites)

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)

- file [research/media/licences.json](../../research/media/licences.json)

## Connected cards

- [May our reader name this site in its User-Agent?](../items/a-user-agent.md) · ask · **open** · waiting on Dinis · incident.media@
- [Six outlets with no terms page found: keep reading their feeds, or pause?](../items/a-outlets-no-terms.md) · ask · **open** · waiting on Dinis · incident.media@

## Where the card came from

- [agents/weatherwatch/status.json](../../agents/weatherwatch/status.json) (asks): "Dinis: three sites' terms restrict automated reading or use by AI (tem…"
- [agents/media/status.json](../../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](a-restricted-sites.json). Not a warning service.