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.

    • @asdfasdfasdf
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      211 months ago

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

      • @cheesebag
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        011 months ago

        Can libraries not get subscriptions to news services for public access?

        • @asdfasdfasdf
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          111 months ago

          Libraries are physical media. If you get public access to a newspaper, then one person can read it at a time. You also create a barrier for people to have to drive to a library, which might be closed, hope that nobody else checked out the thing, etc.

          It’s not at all a solution.

          • @cheesebag
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            011 months ago

            Libraries are physical media

            Tell me you haven’t actually been to a library in the last 15 years without telling me.

            Have you not heard of Libby? Of Overdrive? Next thing you’re gonna be telling me Libraries aren’t a solution because not everyone can use microfiche…