• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    6 hours ago

    I’m not saying that hard paywalls don’t exist. I’m saying that in in the vast majority of cases of written news media, you can get around the paywall.

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      5 hours ago

      Personally, I believe they leave those loopholes so that they can claim that democracy won’t die in darkness. It’s the weasel excuse to say that information is actually free, so why not require payment for ‘ease’.