- Exactly. Paywalls have reduced the amount of well-researched and documented essays & articles to reach the public. It’s created a less well-informed and more homogenized base of info from which to form one’s own opinions. Then what is out there becomes copied without credit on revenue platforms.
- If every website removed their paywall for a week, you'd see how much of what's in the Epstein files was covered in real time. And you'd remember what actually happened in the first Trump term and how everything he's doing now was announced then. Paywalls are a massive self-inflicted wound.