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I’m sure the same assholes that effectively murdered Aaron Swartz for attempting to make academic research accessible to all will now be shutting down Meta over this. Yep, no doubt at all.
@aral A friend told me that "but it is also too tempting from a technical perspective to not use the vast amount of information there" (trying to defend Facebook). 1/
@aral My immediate thought was:
Maybe it's just me – but to me it's a difference, if you are doing this for research / non-profit purposes, or you are actually building a model that you are selling to people & make profit with it. 
The "funny" thing is, that in practice the first is much more likely to get you into jail (as you can see with Aaron Swartz vs. the Facebook case above).
@aral Maybe "making profit" is just a motive in capitalism that justifies everything & is compliant enough with the system that you won't really be punished.
Actually, trying to challenge the notion of copyright, because you want to give free access (as in freedom) to people, doesn't fit into this system & probably challenges its modus operandi too much.
One is in line with the ethics of capitalism (profit over everything) and the other not so much (share knowledge freely).