Most real news has historically been subscription based. Only propaganda is free.
That was before, y’know, the Internet. Though.
Internet news isn’t free; you’re just not paying money. You’re paying for it in privacy and advertising. Just like how Google and Gmail aren’t free services either. You pay for your “free” email somewhere in the 8,000 page EULA, so the vast majority of users literally don’t know the cost of the product they receive. It’s the ignorance economy.
Once you got newspaper, you could keep it and share with everyone. DMCA forbids it.
Democracy dies in darkness, but if you want the light on you gotta pay.
The irony of this being paywalled....
Press perishes in paywalls.
Most real news has historically been subscription based. Only propaganda is free.
That was before, y’know, the Internet. Though.
Internet news isn’t free; you’re just not paying money. You’re paying for it in privacy and advertising. Just like how Google and Gmail aren’t free services either. You pay for your “free” email somewhere in the 8,000 page EULA, so the vast majority of users literally don’t know the cost of the product they receive. It’s the ignorance economy.
Once you got newspaper, you could keep it and share with everyone. DMCA forbids it.
Democracy dies in darkness, but if you want the light on you gotta pay.