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HN readers: tax avoiders should go to jail Also HN readers: avoid paywalls

• eyelidlessness 6y ago
  This common Twitter content format is great, but doesn't really represent the situation well. Let me help: Companies that paywall: I shouldn't be expected to participate in the economy by any rules shared by society. Anyone that isn't cheerleading them: I'm not paying you
  • nwah1 6y ago
    Advertising has perverse incentives, which encourage business models that require invading privacy and optimizing "engagement" at the expense of civil discourse and mental health. When you don't pay for something, you are the product. We should come up with some sort of alternate system which enables wide participation in non-predatory media platforms.
    • frozencell 6y ago
      A token of authenticity to support creators and platforms. Or crack anonymous advertising.
      • nwah1 6y ago
        Tokens are an abstraction layer that can never improve any payment processing system. Anonymous advertising sounds like a way to literally make everything I spoke about worse.