Maybe they are thinking of charging for their content as London's Time currently does. Although I do not know of any site which provides the content of The Time

Maybe they are thinking of charging for their content as London's Time currently does. Although I do not know of any site which provides the content of The Times for free, there is no reason why people would not start doing so where all newspapers to start charging for content. So maybe they are indeed preparing for a certain sort of internet balkanisation.