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Why hard paywalls is not blocked on Lemmy? (ponder.cat)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Cat@ponder.cat to c/askbeehaw@beehaw.org
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I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.

Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?

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[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Because it is the original data source which can be used to find non paywall archives using tools such as https://archive.ph/

I think it's always good practice to link the original source.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 1 points 3 months ago

Why not block both as orginal links?

No paywalls or Archive links.

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you block data sources because you fear misinformation, then you also can't discuss the misinformation/propaganda you disprove of. If you don't allow that information to be posted, it is still being read by many many people that now have less chances of being informed about it being misinformation.

I don't think limiting information is ever a good solution.

[-] Cat@ponder.cat 2 points 3 months ago

You can post third party source that discuess the orginal article and that way you can gurantee accessibility and almost full info.

[-] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 3 months ago

I agree that would be good

[-] millie@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

What's wrong with archive links?

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