Academic journals that are truly locked down are one thing, but nearly every media paywall has a standard workaround. This is the case with NYT, Economist, New Yorker, WSJ, and other sources. fillskills was entirely right to post this article, which is interesting and on topic.
It's fine to help other users get to read the article. It's not fine to take threads off-topic by complaining about paywalls.
When I have time, I'm going to update the FAQ about this, but anyone who wants to can read through the many previous discussions we've had about it [1]. As far as I'm concerned the question is settled: we're not going to impoverish HN by banning sources of good stories that are readable by everyone with known workarounds. Good stories are scarce enough as it is.
1. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&prefix&page=0&dateRange=...