Hong Kong Protesters Keep Up the Pressure

i am just asking here, not taking any position. not long ago, when you purchased an FM radio or a TV, you get the news for free. the internet feels the same way, once you pay for your access, maybe you want to also have access to the news for free.

news publications for a long time have not been free. so i feel that i understand the motivation behind paywalls. and yet i can't potentially subscribe to all the various news sources available online. it's just not possible.

i don't know... should news publication subscriptions be included in our internet and phone packages?

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Post by baybal2 » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:34 PM UTC

I continue seeing military hardware being moved all around Dongguan

https://imgur.com/a/qrsJ9af

I saw a whole lot of bridge layers with troops yesterday, now that.

Occasional troop movements can't be said to be unusual around here (74th army has bases all across the plain in between Huizhou and Guangzhou.) I used to see the almost every day, but never before saw them on the move whole day long.

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Post by silversconfused » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:37 PM UTC

katzgrau wrote: post #4

nullbyte wrote: post #2

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Get a subscription bud - producing content worthy of HN costs money! :sacrificing karma to say what needs to be said:

This attitude is killing the web.

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Post by meruru » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

blondin wrote: post #5

nullbyte wrote: post #2

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i am just asking here, not taking any position. not long ago, when you purchased an FM radio or a TV, you get the news for free. the internet feels the same way, once you pay for your access, maybe you want to also have access to the news for free. news publications for a long time have not been free. so i feel that i understand the motivation behind paywalls. and yet i can't potentially subscribe to all the various…

Netflix model would probably be best. Isn't Apple doing something like that?

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Post by silversconfused » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:46 PM UTC

blondin wrote: post #5

nullbyte wrote: post #2

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i am just asking here, not taking any position. not long ago, when you purchased an FM radio or a TV, you get the news for free. the internet feels the same way, once you pay for your access, maybe you want to also have access to the news for free. news publications for a long time have not been free. so i feel that i understand the motivation behind paywalls. and yet i can't potentially subscribe to all the various…

Back then your attention was valuable enough that presenting news to you was an honor. Obviously some money was made on the side by embedding sponsored messages, but the core content was for the listener/viewer's benefit. Now, cheap content hogs all attention and there is no profit in presenting the facts plainly. There is still honor, however, and honorable news organizations still exist due to mostly volunteers. Personally, I very much enjoy wikipedia's recent events section. The citations are particularly useful.

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Post by dang » Fri, Jun 21, 2019, 6:57 PM UTC

nullbyte wrote: post #2

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Comments like this are off topic because all such discussions are the same. Please don't post them.

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread. This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...