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YEA! lets force every ad supported company to force people too pay for content! Nothing bad will happen from that ...

• bediger4000 5y ago
  The bad effects of advertising are well known. I personally don't think this is too big of a price to pay.
  • viro 5y ago
    So we should just kick poor people off the internet?
    • arrosenberg 5y ago
      Fun fact - poor people used the internet just fine before 2006.
      • viro 5y ago
        Did you use the internet before 2006? There was ads... a lot of them honestly more annoying too.
    • seveneightn9ne 5y ago
      Perhaps we agree as a society to pay for universal access to the digital "town square" - collectivize Facebook, Google, etc and pay for it through taxes.
      • gruez 5y ago
        You really want the same people in charge of government websites (most recent memory: unemployment applications) to be in charge of facebook/google?
        • nonameiguess 5y ago
          This is awfully reductive of "government." State unemployment offices are shit because no one cares. There are plenty of military and IC data processing web applications that scale just as big and just as reliably as Facebook and Google. It's a matter of priorities. There is nothing inherent about public funding that dooms you to a poor implementation.
      • missedthecue 5y ago
        Internet run by government is a million times worse than having to see an ad for Toyota. Get real.
        • bediger4000 5y ago
          Have you had the unfortunate necessity to use the IRS web site? It's actually fantastic. Getting logged in and authenticated is pretty weird, because you have to put in a credit card number or a loan number, but it's pretty good authentication for the audience. The web site itself is snappy, well written, and I could do everything using Firefox on Linux. No "IE only" bullshit. Downloads are fast. I'd give the IRS 10/10, except for the fact that I owe them money.
          • missedthecue 5y ago
            I had to use the social security website the other day and it wouldn't let me log in after working hours. Told me to try again at 9AM the next day. It's a joke.
    • goodpoint 5y ago
      Repeating this point ad nauseam does not make it true.
    • Nextgrid 5y ago
      You already need to pay or otherwise go through significant efforts to obtain internet access, yet this somehow doesn't prevent poor people from using the internet? Why is it fine to require payment for internet access but not services on the internet?
• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Not only nothing bad will happen from that, plenty of good will happen from that - all the garbage content whose only value is tricking people into viewing ads will disappear from the Internet, making it easier to find good information. And yes, I'm 100% serious about that. I've been on the Internet for quite a while, and in my experience, trustworthiness of information is very strongly anticorrelated with the amount of ads around it.