I started to notice some people posting NYT, Bloomberg or other websites with hard paywalls, that leads to people in the comments that are unable to read the article to discuess the headline without any analysis and some times spreading misinformation, which cannot be countered by the article, due to the paywall.
Which bring me to this: Why does no one thought about blocking hard paywalled articles for the sake of quality of discussion?
So it makes sense to ban discussing games that are not open source, discussing movies not in the public domain and sports that charge for tickets?
A better analogy would be a ban on posts that are just a link to a Steam page or a ticket sale page. In which case, yeah, makes sense, that’s spam.
That doesn’t have anything to do with the discussion. Either you want to ban paid content or you don’t.