[JoeMayoBot]

There might be a couple sides to the story if one was to view from a less emotional perspective. People who genuinely enjoy reading the site, but value their privacy have a good argument because now they've been denied their rights. On the other hand, there's always been a serious problem with bots scraping the site, which drives up costs. Another consideration is that they're trying to make the company profitable and sign-ins is a measurable metric for advertising and possibly being able to weed out some bad actors. Whether that will work out the way they intend remains to be seen.