>Any idea why Fred is not a believer in subscriptions? He's ok with subscriptions. However, his particular statement is in context of subscriptions interferin

>Any idea why Fred is not a believer in subscriptions? He's ok with subscriptions. However, his particular statement is in context of subscriptions interfering with providing free content. As far as I can tell, if we want to have websites provide "free" content we have the following choices to that puzzle: 1) sponsored by advertisers 2) sponsored by government taxes (e.g. collect a new "web usage tax" from citizens to fund a CitizenBook as free alternative to Facebook ads and PublicNewsTimes as free alternative to New York Times paid subscription. I doubt that enough voters would support such a tax just to avoid ads.) 3) blockchain? cryptocurrency? (Not sure what Fred has seen with this option.)