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   -=> Aaron Thomas wrote to Dr. What <=-   
      
    AT> I get it now. So it's sort of a contest. The more people who follow   
    AT> you, the more visibility you get, and the more valuable you are to   
    AT> advertisers. It makes sense, but I just don't like that system.   
      
   It's a holdover from newspapers, TV, radio, etc.  They offer the media for   
   "free" and sell the eyeballs to companies for advertisement to pay for it all.    
   But that model is falling apart.   
      
   It fell apart for newspapers long ago.  I stopped listening to TV and radio   
   long ago, so I don't have a feel for how they are funding things anymore.   
      
   Online, too many people have workable ad blockers.  Then there's the whole bot   
   problem that inflates eyeball count.   
      
   Add into that the saying "If the service is free, YOU are the product." and   
   people don't want their private information sold to others.   
      
   I think that we are moving toward a pay-for-play set up now on the Internet.    
   No more free services (or free, but you are very restricted).   
      
    AT> I appreciate you explaining all this. You're great at explaining things   
    AT> in a straightforward way. But doesn't it seem wrong for a great person   
    AT> like Megyn Kelly to have to pay to be heard?   
      
   The alternative is a bunch of fakes claiming to be Megyn Kelly wanting you to   
   hear them.   
      
   This is the same discussion we had a while back when email spam was getting   
   really bad.  People floated an idea to charge people per email.  Like 5 cents.    
   For the average person, that's about $1/month.  But for a spammer, that's a big   
   chunk of profit loss.   
      
      
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