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What is the point posting a pay-walled article? Please check the link you suggest, pay-walled content is not accessible by the majority of people online, how me
by dis-sys 9y ago
What is the point posting a pay-walled article? Please check the link you suggest, pay-walled content is not accessible by the majority of people online, how meaningful information sharing/discussion is possible if the content is not even freely available?
It is worse than the bloody Chinese GFW - a single VPN account allows you to bypass the entire GFW, yet you need to signup/subscribe to millions of different pay-walled sites to even read them.
- yodon 9y agoQuality reporting does in fact cost something to produce. The goal of HN is to surface the best news of interest to the tech community. There is a reason why WSJ, NY Times, and Washington Post are simultaneously high quality and paid sources of news.
- dis-sys 9y agoSure, just forget about Jay Solomon and Jayson Blair.