Sorry, not sorry, not paying for Fox Nation
I understand the reasoning behind a paywall. It sidesteps the hostage situation that occurs when finicky (and mostly leftist) advertisers object to the content. Unfortunately, it also limits the potential audience. How many people visit this thread from the U.S. and foreign countries because they have no other way to get access to Tucker Carlson? It is difficult to judge but we can try to extrapolate.
Way back when Q held a question-and-answer session on /qresearch/, many thousands of anons flooded the board on short notice. Q estimated 250,000 anons and the servers got close to becoming overwhelmed (Q advised the addition of more servers). We can guess that, on average, at least 100,000 anons are connected to the board at any hour of the day. It is impossible to estimate the total viewership over time but we can take a stab and say that it is well over a million. More than 99.9% of the anons are lurkers. Fewer than 0.1% ever post anything. I mean, they don't post ever ever ever. This is true on my own board (Alleycat BBS). I have zero idea of who might be visiting that board because nobody posts.
I am basing this estimate on my past experience with /alleycat/ and the response to the Tucker Carlson thread on /qresearch/ (as well as other observations over the past year). So here it is: I am estimating that anywhere between 10,000 and 25,000 anons may be visiting one or the other of the Tucker Carlson threads. This is just a guess and it could very well be a bad guess. Whatever the number, it is just a drop in a big pond. Tucker gets millions of viewers so my shitty little thread hardly matters. Or does it? What does this have to do with Fox Nation?
The problem with demanding payment for information is that it effectively creates a censorship regime (despite the actual intent). It is not a matter of who can afford to pay and who cannot. Many people who need access to information cannot pay even if they have the money. I can't pay for services in Europe because I am not in Europe. I can't pay to watch Tucker Carlson on the Fox News web site because my cable provider is in Canada and not in the U.S. Therefore, I have to steal my access to Tucker by exploiting a security hole. My access to information is literally denied me because of where I live. It is true that I could watch Tucker live on cable (I choose not to) but this option is not available to the many anons overseas who have thanked me profusely for the privilege of being able to watch Tucker.
Can I pay for Fox Nation? It seems pretty likely that access is geo-restricted though I haven't checked. The situation is actually worse in reverse. Americans cannot access content in Canada. The geographic restrictions (and DRM) are even worse than in the U.S. In the UK, the major broadcasters are positively hostile to the idea of foreign access. Their own citizens are forced to pay a special tax to support the treasonous BBC. It is like these countries want to create a fiefdom so that outsiders cannot be privy to the propaganda being aimed at the people there. That is what corporate ownership of information inevitably leads to.
So the prospect of Fox News creating a pay site to sidestep censorship by fickle advertisers may seem like a good idea on the surface but it creates yet another bubble to trap the people, regardless of whether you agree with the content. Information should be free to all, especially in a time of global upheaval because what happens in one country does not stay in that country. It echoes around the world. The creation of digital fiefdoms prevents the people from verifying that what they are told about faraway places is actually true. The United States is at the center of the global Great Awakening and we can't afford to hide anything behind paywalls.
My humble attempt at bringing Tucker Carlson to the world may seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things. It is just a small puncture through one of the many walls that have been erected which, purposely or not, are blocking public access to information. As an "amateur hacker" and a skilled programmer, I will keep trying to break through the walls where I can. I will not resort to outright "theft" to get access to content (that is, I won't be trying to pilfer from Fox Nation) but I will do what I can where I can.
I'm setting an example with this thread in the hope that more people will see what I see. It does not really matter exactly how many people are taking advantage of what I have been offering. It is the example that matters. Free access to information is more important now than it has ever been. I'm not saying that you should boycott paywalls or Fox Nation. If you can, bring the information to the people. Don't leave it behind the paywall. Do the world a favour and don't let yourself get stuck in a bubble. Okay?