Ah, the old paywall with extra steps. So let’s take that further… In the future google has devolved even more than it has now. So it’s just basically a misinformational mess riddled with ads. I guess to have access to reliable and non-predatory links/info you gotta now have the money for it. How much money will of course increase as any company gets established of course further pushing lower income people out.

And don’t even pretend this is far stretched. People struggling to get by get boned by shit like this all the time.

It’s too abusable. I don’t like it at all. I also don’t like the idea of the government having full control of the internet/information either. I don’t know what the solution is but locking information behind money, even if it’s in a roundabout way, is not a good solution.

I will personally always be against any paywalls on information but to each their own I guess.

Maybe unpopular opinion but I thought it was really over hyped when it rolled up to AZ. Lines around the block for months for what turned out to be a pretty ok burger and meh fries at the end of the day. It wasn’t bad but people willing to wait in line for over an hour have just lost their whole minds lol

You’re not getting downvoted for protecting freedom of speech lol. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean that you’re entitled to having every platform ever politely entertain your opinions. It protects you from the government and that’s it. There’s nothing else. If you express a racist opinion and people go after you in the comments they’re completely within their rights to do so. If you roll up at that point and try to defend them… Well, you’re not defending freedom of speech are you? They already said what they were going to say freely. At that point you are quite literally defending a bigot and asserting that they should be able to say what they want without consequences.

Well earth shoulda thought about that before it made us