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by fuckcensorship 1415 days ago
Non-paywalled: https://archive.ph/mly0y

This is off-topic, but why doesn't a bot exist for this yet? Paywalled content seems to be becoming increasingly common and sophisticated so it's surprising to me that no one on HN has made a bot which automatically comments the archive.ph link for any post linking to a known paywalled site.

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From what I understand, bots are discouraged as posters/commenters on HN.
More importantly, why isn't posting a link to a paywalled site against HN rules? HN has plenty of rules to improve the quality of submissions and headlines; why do they allow paywalls?