That's nice, I do wonder about the legitimacy of a moral statement that you have to pay to see.

For a very long time publishing something in a newspaper has been considered a way of putting something on the public record - up to and including legal obligations like announcements of deaths. The fact that newspapers cost money has never been considered a barrier to that.

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agos 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

One of the reasons why it was noti considered a barrier was the ability to purchase a single issue for a very reasonable price (or even read somebody else’s copy or the copy made available by the bar) vs being asked to subscribe

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jameshart 16 hours ago | parent [-]

I shared a gift link here. You could go to your local library and look it up. What's the complaint here?

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		I'm not OP, but a big part of the complaint is that one can't pay 10USD to read the issue that contains the article in question... absent the charity of someone else, one must pay -at minimum- nine times that amount. [0] Ten bucks is pretty close to "I don't even need to think about it" money. Ninety is -for most folks- nowhere near that. [0] <https://accounts.theatlantic.com/products>

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Lerc 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Publishing in a newspaper gets you distribution and a permanent record. After one day access was also virtually free.

Going behind a paywall is a reduced distribution over what an individual can easily access, and the content is no longer permanent but subject to whatever the publisher chooses to keep providing.

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jameshart 10 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s in The Atlantic. There’ll be a copy in the Library of Congress. You’ll be able to read it for free in any dentist’s waiting room for the next six months.

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	▲	simoncion 11 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> You’ll be able to read it for free in any dentist’s waiting room... Methinks that this says quite a lot about your socioeconomic situation. I've not seen The Atlantic in a dentist's waiting room.