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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?

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[–] [email protected] -4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

I did not mean 'widen' in that sense—reading and being informed is not about the quantity of news one can swallow in a day, you know—but with the idea of reading different sources.

I don't know what are you digging into.

Also, may I ask how can you be reading three fucking hundred news sources regularly (not daily, obviously) with any sort of attention?

I read by hour, due to my free time(usually it does fetch 50 articles per hour, much less on holidays and I only read the interesting ones to me.)

It's pretty perfect for me.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I don’t know what are you digging into.

Digging into?

I just say that reading news may be more enriching or, if you prefer, more useful when it's not practiced like if it was a sausage eating contest.

You seem to enjoy eating a lot of news, that's ok if that's your thing, I'm only suggesting that eating less and more selectively could help you realize that all pay-walled content is not created for 'enriching billionaires', like you said earlier. Don't get me wrong though, this is just a suggestion and you're more than welcome to keep stuffing yourself with as much news as you fancy.

I read by hour, due to my free time(usually it does fetch 50 articles per hour, much less on holidays and I only read the interesting ones to me.)

50 articles per hour? That's not reading, that's scrolling. Which is perfectly fine, here again don't get me wrong, but scrolling a list of titles does not equal reading them (aka, getting a clear idea of what the author wrote and then be able to summarize their argument reliably).

50 articles per hour means spending at most 1 minute and somewhere between 10 or 20 seconds to read each article (with enough attention to be able to understand what is read) and that's only if one is using every single minute of that hour, not doing anything else like scratching one's nose not even yawning out of exhaustion.
I'm impressed this is perfect for you, and glad you found a system that works wonders. It certainly would not be perfect for me. Even though I consider myself an intensive reader I'm also not much into stuffing myself like you may have understood already. Also, I do not worry much about people sharing links to pay-walled content since it rarely worries me when I can't read one specific article.