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Ethics of Bypassing Paywalls on News
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<blockquote data-quote="partinobodycular" data-source="post: 77644012" data-attributes="member: 435281"><p>That's one of my pet peeves with society. It divides people between those who have the ability to pay, and those who don't. Personally, whenever I see a paywall or a subscription, who's sole purpose is to restrict access to only the rich, then I'm very apt to want to tear that wall down, or in the very least I'm gonna find a way to go around it, over it, or through it. </p><p></p><p>It's not so much that I need the thing, in fact I'm probably fine without it, it's just the idea that because I'm poor, someone has decided that I'm not good enough to have it. What if that paywall simply said "Whites Only"? Somehow, society has gotten the idea that it's okay to discriminate against the poor. It's their moral character that's in question, and not the moral character of the person treating them like second class citizens.</p><p></p><p>So you can go ahead and make all the moral judgments that you want to... but personally, I'm gonna be overturning the tables of the money changers, and not thinking twice about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="partinobodycular, post: 77644012, member: 435281"] That's one of my pet peeves with society. It divides people between those who have the ability to pay, and those who don't. Personally, whenever I see a paywall or a subscription, who's sole purpose is to restrict access to only the rich, then I'm very apt to want to tear that wall down, or in the very least I'm gonna find a way to go around it, over it, or through it. It's not so much that I need the thing, in fact I'm probably fine without it, it's just the idea that because I'm poor, someone has decided that I'm not good enough to have it. What if that paywall simply said "Whites Only"? Somehow, society has gotten the idea that it's okay to discriminate against the poor. It's their moral character that's in question, and not the moral character of the person treating them like second class citizens. So you can go ahead and make all the moral judgments that you want to... but personally, I'm gonna be overturning the tables of the money changers, and not thinking twice about it. [/QUOTE]
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