I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

  • traches@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    The ad-supported internet is awful, and paywalls are sort of the only sane alternative. It’s how news has worked for centuries and we need to go back.

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      5 days ago

      we need to go back

      Right…

      me secretly committing “piracy” by bypassing the paywall

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      (Paying for news, thats written by a corporation? In this economy?)