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I want people to pay. It will

- Reduce majority of bots by making them unsustainable.

- Provide direct money to improve moderation and make platforms liable.

- Make journalism cater to individuals rather than ad networks.

- Remove toxicity because trolls won't pay after getting banned regularly. No need for other fingerprinting methods.

- Reduce the number of users and silo them automatically.

Free business models are anti-competitive and result in worse service for the users by making platforms accountable to advertisers (other companies) than consumers.

Force facebook to introduce minimum payment based on purchasing power. Outlaw free/freemium models in software or limit them to a time period (3-6 months).

This won't apply to non-profit services. And open source will be fine since it will only apply to services or for-profit companies.



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