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As a journalist, I defend the habit of sharing archive links. Paywalls are a lazy and detrimental solution to a larger financial problem for media organizations. They limit the access to information to a specific subset of people, and let misinformation run wild and free.

So yes, sharing the article is important in this case. If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it.

>>camill+(OP)
> If there was, say, a 300$ per year global subscription to a 100 of publications, I'm also sure 90% of hacker news would buy it.

No one is going to pay $300/yr to read news articles online.

But even people do that, by your logic it's just limiting the access to information to a specific group of those who are able and willing to pay $300/yr to read news.

>>rainco+A
I assure you that many people spend $300 annually on news and journalism.

>>camill+(OP)
This kind of already exists with Apple News+. Not sure how well that is going but if anyone has the reach to make this work it would be Apple.

Personally I am for anything that can decouple advertising from reporting. There are just too many perverse incentives that it creates.