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Subscriptions lock out people without credit cards (children, less affluent) from the Internet. This makes me sad.
by cbhl 11y ago
Subscriptions lock out people without credit cards (children, less affluent) from the Internet. This makes me sad.
- erickhill 11y agoSubscriptions can mean an ad-free experience for those who pay, but content for all. Doesn't have to be a wall.
- id 11y agoIt also locks out well-off people with credit cards - they can't possibly subscribe to everything.
- 2muchcoffeeman 11y agoI used to go to the library for this sort of thing. My mom works in a library and they are in the process of throwing all the books away, and creating 'social spaces'. As much as the Internet has made information easy to get, there are a lot of high quality publications that I can no longer access eg research papers, art and design books.
- kyrra 11y agoIn the US, sure. But there are lots and lots of various forms of payment to handle things like subscriptions. See Boletos[0] in Brazil for example. Many other countries around the world have ways of paying for things online without credit cards. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleto https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleto