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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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[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Because these sites tend to be among the most credible for general news-info and many kind OPs provide gift links or archive bypasses. And it's just one more step for you to bypass the paywall yourself anyway.

If you banned those sites you would be limited to only a select few neutral sites, local channels ([tinytown]news.com etc.), heavily opinionated sites (I'm including sites I agree with and don't here), propaganda and misinfo (they would never paywall that because their purpose is to get people's eyeballs on it).

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