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"We'd need different funding models for radio, television and much of the internet." I thought the internet was funded by internet subscriber fees. What are w
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y ago
"We'd need different funding models for radio, television and much of the internet."
I thought the internet was funded by internet subscriber fees.
What are we paying ISPs for.
Advertisers do not pay our internet access fees.
Any internet subscriber can publish on the internet. No advertisers needed.
Owning a radio station or TV channel is expensive and may require funding from advertisers.
But an internet subscription is affordable in the same way as a TV set or a radio receiver. If an internet subscriber has a reachable IP address then she can publish.
- HDThoreaun 2y agoThere would be minimal content without payment. There would be minimal payment without advertising. People are overwhelmingly unwilling to pay for online content.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 2y agoInternet subbscribers routinely produce and publish content to be consumed by other subscribers without payment. (Middlemen calling themselves "tech" companies have created websites to exploit this phenomenon.) For example, HN readers are known to enjoy the comments section, perhaps more than the submitted news items themselves. But HN commenters do not get paid for their "content". Many years prior to the existence of so-called "tech" companies, this phenomenon was observable on Usenet. Without advertisers and without payment. Internet users are perhaps unwilling to pay for content published to the internet; they are however willing to publish internet content without payment.