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[ai-control] prevent robots.txt entries from becoming law | Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, weighs in re: legally enforceable statements in robots.txt

2025-07-23 06:03:05+00:00

Having anything in robots.txt reflected in law is such a bad idea, that I suggest we, the Internet standards community, do our best to make it not happen. (I do understand the temptation to think we should make law, but others might disagree 🙂 ) So let’s not add any AI features into this standard.
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