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The BBC is launching a paywall in the US (www.niemanlab.org)
submitted 15 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Time to unfollow them, I guess.

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[–] NameTaken@lemmy.world 27 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

It seems just for people in the US. So hopefully the rest of us will be fine.

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 22 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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

(edit: the title originally just said it was adding a paywall without mention of any country)

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

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

Unless I've misunderstood your comment

BBC article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 4 points 12 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

[–] AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

What's the defaultism here?

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 6 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

The original title just said something like “BBC is now paywalled” 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

[–] errer@lemmy.world 8 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

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

[–] BeBopaLula@piefed.ca 2 points 12 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.