• ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆OPM
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    10 months ago

    The whole paywall thing is becoming a serious barrier to information access. This also lends itself to subtle abuse and censorship because new agencies can paywall content they want to suppress. So technically they’re still reporting on it, but majority of people won’t see it.

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      10 months ago

      Or clever grifters can post content to entice a gullible demographic into paying for some confirmation for their beliefs.

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        10 months ago

        Seems like the only gullible demographic here are the people who still believe in Russiagate given all the evidence to the contrary. Turns out grifters didn’t even have to make them pay a single penny to confirm their biases.