> If you put your content on the web, and don't require authentication to access it, it's going to be crawled and scraped. Most of the time you're happy about this — you want search providers to index your content
> The default-public accessibility of information on the internet is a net-good for the technology ecosystem. Want to host things online? Learn how.
These two statements are at odds, I hope you realize. You say public accessibility of information is a good thing, while blaming someone for being effectively DDOS'd as a result of having said information public.