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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy? (ponder.cat)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 21 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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:

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

Please don't ban paywalls.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

Paying for things does not prevent enshitification.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 20 hours ago

But not paying for it almost guarantees it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago

I disagree. The alternative to news is no news. If you don't have anything interesting to share, just don't post it.

If you want to share news articles, just use a link to the internet archive, if available, or copy-paste the text if it's behind a paywall.

Information should be open to all on a platform like Lemmy imo. If you're willing to pay for news, you won't need this platform for that.

Please ban paywalls.