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Wow, those comments are really odd. Every time a WSJ article is submitted here a comment contains a link to avoid the paywall, and every single time people are
by tokenizerrr 11y ago
Wow, those comments are really odd. Every time a WSJ article is submitted here a comment contains a link to avoid the paywall, and every single time people are grateful.
- bicknergseng 11y agoI can't help but wonder if that was a bit of brigading...
- marcosdumay 11y agoEvery time there is also somebody complaining that we shouldn't evade pay walls at all. But that's indeed a really odd set of comments. While there is some criticism on this thread here, it's way more down to Earth, nobody is talking about theft or anything.
- schoen 11y agoMaybe people feel that people should only avoid paywalls in a random and haphazard way, and not a systematic way, or that people should avoid paywalls whenever they want but not make it convenient for the general public to do that? Is there a name for ethical notions related to whether people make a habit of something, or whether people help make something convenient?
- sukilot 11y agoIt is called "abusing a privilege" , and most elementary school children are taught not to take all the cookies from the jar just because they are invited to take one.
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