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>It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds. A subjective rule whose interpretation is based on circumstances of individual readers
by LegitShady 7y ago
>It's ok to post stories from sites with paywalls that have workarounds.
A subjective rule whose interpretation is based on circumstances of individual readers. Everything has a workaround if you're an advanced enough developer, right? Unless you're reading on an ipad, then you can't do anything you describe.
Maybe the rule should be if you post a paywall site, you must also post a workaround to prove it exists and show others how to use it, putting the onus on the poster to explain access to the content they post.
- ipsocannibal 7y agoI think this brings up a good point. Is copy and paste considered a workaround? While a considerably low tech solution it does defeat any and all paywalls. If we also consider it a workaround the we should simply change the answer to "Are paywalls ok?" to "Yes, but be kind to the reader and copy the content to a paste and submit that as a comment".