The problem with pay walls

This morning I tried to follow a link to an article in The Times on the death of Christopher Hitchens. I was greeted with the following screen.





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How ironic that they should offer the content on my terms when it is clearly being offered on their terms. I didn’t take up their offer as I have little or no interest in reading The Times other than when someone whose judgment and intelligence I trust points to their content. I am not unwilling to pay for stuff but “on my terms”. Their paywall, as currently conceived, makes this impossible.

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