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Hasn't ad supported media been the model for like 100 years or longer? The retail cost of print newspapers was to cover the cost of delivery and pay the retaile

• bee_rider 2y ago
  I think there’s always been a mix? Anyway I’m, yeah, we didn’t invent being unethical at the turn of the millennium or anything like that.
• jasdi 2y ago
  People who have issues with it, just don't get Broadcast (one to all) messaging has always been controlled by the ruling classes. Freedom of Speech can be given to everyone very generously, if Broadcasting (distribution) is controlled. During the hey days of newspapers without Postal subsidies/Railway subsidies and paper mill subsidies it was very expensive for publishers to ship tons of paper across the country everyday. Even today world wide lot of Govts run the Post Office and Railways. And they subsidize rates for newspapers and magazines. Good luck getting that subsidy if you piss off the wrong people. Same story repeats with licenses for radio/tv/satellite spectrum. Today its just Ads or control of the content factory (see who owns all the loss making news orgs in the land - Corporations). Ad supported just means who ever can bid most for the ad. And the Elites can outbid the plebs every day of the week.