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The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free ❧ Current Affairs
“The more information is free, the more opportunities for it to be collected, refined, packaged and made expensive,” said Stewart Brand, the technology visionary who first developed the formulation. “The more it is expensive, the more workarounds to make it free. It’s a paradox. Each side makes the other true.”
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- Technology is shifting market power away from publications and towards writers**
Chris Best • Writers Writing, Readers Reading, Creators Creating
First, if you want reliable information, pay good money for it. If you get your news for free, you might well be the product.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
It’s not financially responsible to throw our ideas around online for free anymore, but the alternative threatens the spirit of what internet community is supposed to be about.
Kate Lindsay • The IP Generation
. Years ago, the idea that online life would be dominantly funded by advertising coalesced into conventional wisdom, and we’ve been living with the consequences ever since. The utopian assumption that views and clicks would accrue to the highest-quality content failed to understand a basic lurking reality - that the monetization of attention leads
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