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?

  • LibbEnglish
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    2 days ago

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

    Why block (aka, censor) a link?

    1. People are free to subscribe if they want to, they at least get a link to the source.
    2. People can often find workarounds if they can’t/refuse to pay but they would still need the link to know what exact ref they should search for.