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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (140540)9/26/2005 2:05:53 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 793999
 
The level of schadenfreude from Micky Kaus at Slate is very high today...money graf:

P.S.: A few days ago I jokingly called for replacing TimesSelect with "TimesDelete," a service that would allow readers to pay to silence their least favorite columnists. D.A.'s email has made me realize how misdirected this proposal was. TimesSelect doesn't need to be replaced by TimesDelete. TimesSelect is TimesDelete! The Times has taken the columnists people are most willing to pay for and removed them from the public discourse on the Web. In fact, the paper has been quite diligent about suppressing them--contrary to my expectations, Times columns are not regularly turning up on pirate Web sites. Look at John Tabin's Never Pay Retail--the last six NYT columns apparently aren't available anywhere for free. They're gone! Even Paul Krugman's archive of previously published columns may be wiped out. ... Why does China have to spend millions on new repressive opinion-blocking technologies and new complicated anti-speech rules when it could just adopt TimesSelect across the board and accomplish the same thing more efficiently and with less controversy?... The NYT might even lease its proprietary TimesSelect technology to threatened dictatorships around the globe as a turnkey solution to their Internet dissent problems. Worried about subversive pro-democracy agitators? Just make them part of TimesSelect's premium content and they'll never be heard from again! ... It's yet another coveted supplemental revenue stream opened up by Pinch Sulzberger's Web pathfinders. ....

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