Surely they owe them money for the goods and service, no? I thought that's how stores worked.

Context friend. This article and entire comments sections is about questionable web page access. Context.

You're replying in a store metaphor thread though. Context matters.

Then they can't complain if they're barred entry.

http is neutral. it's up to the client to ignore robots.txt

You can block IP's at the host level but there's pretty easy ways around that with proxy networks.

> http is neutral.

Who misled you with that statement?

Http doesnt have emotions or thought last time I checked.

It seems that a 403 makes you sad though.

iproyal.com makes me smile again

And Cloudflare makes you cry. See, it's not neutral. Glad you learned something today. The more one learns everyday, the less stupid you become.

IETF?