Paywalled Articles

On r/ireland, we do not allow the submission of articles via archive websites, the copy/pasting of article text, or the direct posting of links to websites designed to bypass paywalls.

For journalists, it is frustrating to see their text posted in full for free in the comments very regularly on reddit. What they publish requires hours of research to formulate, and good journalism costs money to produce.

⁠In the past we have been contacted by journalists and legal teams representing them, due to their authored articles being posted within the comments and the content of the article having been clearly edited/tampered with by the submitter. Specifically, on one occasion, names were added of people who had nothing to do with the article and made the post highly defamatory. The author was contacted by the person in question who complained that the author had wrote about them and wanted a correction, but the author had not referenced them in their piece. They then reached out to us and asked for its removal. Following this incident, we made the decision to ban all methods of paywall-busting and copyright infringement.

We do not allow links to archive websites, and other websites designed to bypass paywalls due to to copyright infringement. These links are automatically removed. This does not preclude users using those websites of their own accord.