Because it directly affects this community. It's a link aggregator site for heaven's sake.
> If you run into a link and discover it's to pay-walled content simply move on, you've only wasted like 3 seconds of your life.
I could take this argument ad infinitum. Why didn't you just move on instead of posting a comment here? Why does anyone say anything critical ever instead of just moving on?
> Also, I'll be creating a scraper that analyzes users' comment histories to determine when they complain about paywalls if they've ever complained about the state of journalism or scientific funding. If they have, I will link to the evidence so they can be duly down-voted, ridiculed, and shamed.
Great, vigilante justice and public ridicule over a topic you supposedly don't care one whit about.