Right, but as I just said obeying a disallow directive isn't legally mandatory, so it doesn't mean much.

The difference depends on context, of course.

Generally speaking there are several cases to consider:

(1) Site requires agreeing on terms of service before browser can access content. In this case, scraping is a clear violation.

(2) Site terms of service forbid scraping content, but human visitors can view content and ...
(2a) site takes technical measures to exclude bots. In this case scraping is a no-no, but for a different reason: it violates the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
(2b) site takes no technical measures to exclude bots. In this case, the answer is unclear, and may depend on the specific jurisdiction (e.g. circuit court).

(3) Site has a robots.txt file and ...
(3a) robots.txt allows scraping. In this case, even if the terms of service forbid scraping, the permission given here helps the scraper's defense.
(3b) robots.txt forbids scraping. In this case obeying robots.txt isn't in itself legally mandatory, but it may affect your case if the site takes other anti-scraping measures.

Meta has offices and employees in Ireland, so was this simply an oversight or is there some reason Meta would benefit from or prefer Catherine Connolly not winning?

Not *explicitly*. Offering such a database would be an invitation for people to look at the whole data broker industry. So what you, as a databroker who tracks and piegeonholes every human being who uses the Internet to a fare-the-well, do to tap into the market for lists of gullible yokels? You offer your customer, literally anyone with money, the ability to zero in on the gullible by choosing appropriate proxies.

For example, you can get a list of everyone who has searched for "purchasing real estate with no money down". Sad people who buy colloidal silver and herbal male enhancement products. People who buy terrible crypto assets like NFTs and memecoins. Nutters who spend a lot of time on conspiracy theory sites.

It's kind of like doxxing someone. You might not be able to find out directly that John Doe lives on Maple St and works for ACME services, but you can piece it together by the traces he leaves online. Only you do it to populations wholesale.

And I'm betting he'll definitely want something gold that says Trump to be put on the Moon. He's in a build large/expensive legacy things, that we won't be able to easily undo mode, like the new White House ballroom (which may be proceeding illegally) and proposed "Arc de Trump" (officially, "Triumphal Arch") in DC. Tick-tock, time's running out...

To be fair, the problem isn't simply because the language is old.

Hopefully, you meant "foreseeable". :-)

wait a week or two and the details will change completely.

Trump is nothing if not mercurial. His fans will tell you he's playing 11 dimensional chess... I have my doubts, but let's say that's true. The problem is that when it comes to the economy it's not chess. It's more like basketball, and the President is the point guard calling plays, except the play being called keeps changing before the players can execute the last call. It's a tough time to be running a business, you can't plan out more than a couple of weeks.

He really should wait until Tuesdays for this stuff ... :-)

Although commutations apparently just need a lavishly praising letter to our Dear Leader, and "the courage, conviction, and intelligence to always vote Republican" -- even if you actually pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

President Trump commutes the prison sentence of George Santos

And when another place becomes even cheaper, they'll replace the humans in the Philippines with robots operated remotely. :-)

Robots in Japan <- robots in Philippines <- people elsewhere ...

Chrome Web Store and addons.mozilla.org already implement "extensions".

A "page" is an HTML document retrieved through an HTTP or HTTPS URL. I think PPH is proposing enforcing a stricter same-origin policy. Instead of CORS, the document's origin server would have to act as a proxy to retrieve any third-party resources needed by the client-side script.

Can it be attached to an F-18? Because someone apparently has some really, really bad intestinal issues that need analyzing ...

TFA shows the camera clips onto the rim of your existing toilet, below the seat; it's not a toilet with a built-in camera - not yet anyway. In any case; seems super dumb. Also, it has a fingerprint reader at the toilet-rim level - yuk. Sure the reader is on the outside, but sill below the seat at rim level.