I dunno, I kind of think that any paywall has elements of competing goals. The current cat-and-mouse of paywalls but with exemptions for facebook, search links

I dunno, I kind of think that any paywall has elements of competing goals. The current cat-and-mouse of paywalls but with exemptions for facebook, search links, n-visits... it's an inevitable mess trying to do both wide distributions and access restriction. A paywalled article can't be discussed on HN, retweeted and such. This isolates it from the wider conversation. That doesn't work with what media is today.