> He's being disengeious in the blog, the reason they made him take the site down is cos people writing some really really bad things about students

I don't understand what you mean. The blog is very clear about that being the problem.

Guy writes a website that scrapes data of people without their permission, is repeatedly warned by authority and uni personnel to stop, doesn't and then writes a piece on unfair treatment. Shucks.

I don't think he's being disingenuous. OP is transparent they started a campus gossip website inspired by The Social Network.

> I had scraped data for all students at IIT Delhi, and made a profile for all of them.

> anyone could make an anonymous account, and then comment anything on anyone's profile. Each profile also had 4 fields, where you could tag anyone, in the "has dated", "crushing on", "crushed on by" or "haters" category.

I am surprised that OP, having seen that movie and quoting lines from it during his meeting with the administration, didn't see this coming.

> also at one point i literally said the social network dialogue, " I feel like i deserve some recognition from you guys"

for real, IIT is difficult enough, last thing it needs is a "tea" situation, avoiding nonsense trends like that goes a long way towards more prosperous futures for everybody.

How is some people writing bad things about some students a valid reason to make me take my website down? like iit should honestly have been proud of me for building something cool, which over 80% of their uni is using. instead of threatening to kick me out...