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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning (nymag.com)

submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Vice is basically dead — Thousands of stories written over the past two decades could soon be deleted without any warning::CEO Bruce Dixon told staffers that Vice Media will lay off hundreds of employees and stop publishing stories on the site.

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's a double edged sword. Quality information should be accessible to everyone. We ensure that for kids through public school systems, but for adults you need to pay for it yourself. Which is a huge problems since that is the same demographic as "voters".

[–] cheesebag@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Libraries?

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

We're talking about paywalls for news articles. Libraries dont solve this problem.