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If you aren't paying for it, you're still paying for it. Let me tell you how.
This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.Last week, I and many others online came across a post complaining about advertisements, registration walls, and paywalls for news. The post equated such to allowing the spread of disinformation and accelerating the leap to fascism because news isn’t being freely disseminated everywhere.
Most hosting websites will say that a personal website or blog with a modest audience can have a monthly upkeep of anywhere from $5 to $25. Meanwhile, ecommerce sites can have monthly upkeep costs into the low thousands of dollars, depending on traffic., a news website can cost anywhere from $10,000 to $25,000 just to build. The price of a website is dependent on the complexity of features desired, with monthly upkeep costs scaling depending on how many visitors you have.
“Why don’t news sites make their content free for everyone to read, like the various social media platforms out there?” you might ask. Even though news companies such as Rappler post on social media, social media platforms themselves are not news platforms, and do not treat the news with higher priority than any other type of speech online. In fact, platforms have deprioritized the news from visibility, allowing less substantial posts — such as authoritarian political speech, rage-baiting headlines from engagement grifters, and posts from scammers and profiteers — to become more visible online.
For those who don’t wish to register to the site, you can still read a news article for free once, but repeat visits to a page will need a registration.
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