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?

  • ahal@lemmy.ca
    192·
    9 days ago

    Because like it or not, actually paying for stuff is the only way to save journalism and by extension our democracies.

    The alternative is to link shitty clickbait / AI spam. At least this way:

    1. People might be encouraged to pay for journalism.
    2. There are many ways to bypass the paywall for those who won’t or can’t pay.

    Please don’t ban paywalls.