On 2/25/19 10:37 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
There are several ethical concerns that motivate me here - the one that is easiest to understand is probably that allowing bots would create a two class system within the OSM community on the wiki - those who are able to develop and run bots would form a ruling class while the rest would be subject to this rule whether they agree with it or not. [..]
If that is an essential concern for you, I have bad news about the Openstreetmap database...
Robots are not sovereign entities: they are puppets to humans and therefore bound to human rules, to which supplementary restrictions are added to compensate for their large-scale effect. Therefore, the authors of automation have greater power to realize their vision - but they remain under political control... Works pretty fine for our map, doesn't it ?
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