Comment on BBC is Getting a Paywall.

NameTaken@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I love the US defaultism even when they’re talking about another country’s public news station

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  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It does actually seem like it’s only the US for now

    Unless I’ve misunderstood your comment

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I asked OP to update the title in another comment which they did (and appreciate) but it made this comment of mine confusing 😅. The original title didn’t have any mention of which country. It just said they were adding a paywall

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What’s defaultism here?

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    • NotSteve_@lemmy.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The original title just said it was adding a paywall making it sound like it applied to more than 1 of the 195 (worldometers.info recognised) countries in the world.

      I’m not British but it’d be pretty alarming to hear that the BBC was adding a paywall that applied to the British if I was British

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      • errer@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Honestly this sucks balls for the US. One more credible news source made inaccessible.

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• BeBopaLula@piefed.ca ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would not be surprised if it was not Thiel and gang ensuring only the billionaires newspapers are read by all us plebes by paying BBC to go paywall.

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