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You're... saying this on Hacker News. A website that expects to get "news for free".

• 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
  Is HN using the data it gets from HN users to sell services to advertisers. You dont think there is a non-commercial versus commercial distinction.
  • madeofpalk 6y ago
    So you think that any commercial website (is HN, ran by a VC firm, even non-commercial?) should have to pay the website for links its users submit?
    • 1vuio0pswjnm7 6y ago
      No. But with respect to how Google News and Faceook use "news" to support their respective rackets, I think this is different from the example of HN. For one, HN is not trying to compete for advertiser payments with every website that gets submitted. "Commercial" in the sense I am using it means deriving revenue from the use of news. Perhaps HN does that somehow but to support its VC business but that seems a poor comparison to the likes of Google/Facebook. Big difference between Google News and HN, or a Facebook "news feed" and HN.