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The Bloomberg article about this is itself paywalled. Sad, but poetically fitting.
by gruturo 7y ago
The Bloomberg article about this is itself paywalled.
Sad, but poetically fitting.
- ceejayoz 7y agoThere's no California law enshrining the right to read a news article. There is one for beaches.
- khazhoux 7y agoBloomberg is creating content. Their article is presumably of value to people. Hence, they're charging for it.
- throw_m239339 7y agoBloomberg also wants to have it both ways, they want their content to be referenced on Google, and a select number of people to share the articles they read for free, while disallowing others to do the exact same thing. Fortunately no nobody can prevents people from screenshooting and sharing the screenshot for free instead of the article directly. Bloomberg can't have it both way.
- throw_m239339 7y agohttps://i.imgur.com/k23xtZz.jpg https://i.imgur.com/k23xtZz.jpg A screenshot. If something is posted here and HN expect people to have a constructive discussion about its content, then that resource should be free to read or HN doesn't really want people to actually discuss the content of the source. HN can't have it both ways.