Maybe lets not try to pretend that it is just about the costs shall we? I bet MBAs will cower at the suggestion to put up a paywall from the beginning. Afterall, bait-and-switch is their bread-and-butter.
Subscriptions weren't the norm when we actually paid for something and got the full product. The cost to run things didn't suddenly become a factor just now.
Only thing that changed: greed of businesses, execs, shareholders.
No need to convince anyone. Trump presidency ensures their will is implemented.
When meta abuses entire countries and skirts regulations... i think a fucking $25 meal card is just petty bullshit.
Stop licking corporate boots.
If you have to defer to the law as justification for doing something purely selfish... then people will judge you to be an asshole.
Edit: Not you personally.
Its quite simple really: if you want profits then you should get it honestly. Otherwise you don't deserve the profits.
Have a lot to say =/= have all to say.
Probably arrange it such that not one person/server knows what the stored bytes are. There can be a server where the bytes/blocks get reconstructed where one can check for the bad stuff.
Not a good idea to tell this to teenagers without also teaching them about contraceptives and protection.
One of the reasons I am an atheist. I mean what was God thinking making these morons?
Thats not the entire story is it? How often is it corporate meddling?