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I for one am willing to pay for content as long as it's large enough to o cover most of the sites I frequent, fixed rate subscription, no extea fees for content (pay per comment/timed exclusivity for paid members to drive membership fine by me), and most importantly, a way to personally choose who gets a portion (at least 25%) of the subscription fees.

Short of that I really don't give a damn. It's not my problem.

You're supposing that there aren't people out there willing to make and distribute content without demanding some kind of payment in return. Content doesn't only come from people that put tons of crappy ads on their sites. And I can't say I'll find it tragic when Buzzfeed and Upworthy go bankrupt.

Fake news sites usually don't have paywalls

It's sad really

Doesn't affect my logic. Tragedy of the commons.