> Alternatively, the add-ons break the social contract, whereby content creators request payment for their content. The site is free to not emit any content be

> Alternatively, the add-ons break the social contract, whereby content creators request payment for their content. The site is free to not emit any content before payment is assured. The reason these add-ons are possible is that these sites are trying to have their cake and eat it to. They want to implement the paywall in the user agent so they can still get their content in Google. At the same time some of them are trying to argue for payments from Google for linking to their content. The situation is a mess but it's not about social contracts at all.