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Please stop posting paywalled articles. Especially WSJ. This community represents the future of the internet. I don't know what the answer is for making sure content providers get paid, but the WSJ model isn't it. So let's vote with our attention (or lack there of) and kill this annoying practice before it makes the internet an even more walled and unpleasant place.

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Your post lacks information on the part of why the WSJ model isn't acceptable. Paying money for a newspaper isn't exactly unprecedented, and there are plenty of people who are fine with that model.

They want us to commit to a subscription, using a credit card, in US currency. That is significantly different from the newspaper model, because it requires some trust on my part, and it is quite awkward; my CC sits in a firesafe when I am not traveling. Subscriptions also encourage FOMO behavior, something I am currently having a bit of trouble with, personally.

I too would prefer that we do not allow subscription content here. If the story is significant, then it will be covered elsewhere.

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