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by noosphr 4 hours ago
OP is paying their ISP to access the internet. Even at the most fundamental level reading blogs isn't free. So that point is right out.

What's left is the friction of paying the fraction of a cent that needs to be paid to the content creator to keep the lights on.

This is a collective action problem. There is no reason why there isn't a monthly fee processor for accessing the www that pays every site you visit some fraction of a cent for each visit. As we already covered they exist for ips, we call them isps and they deal with all the payments in the background required to keep the wires maintained for all the bits that flow through them.

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they might be reading blogs at the library?
Your taxes pay for the library. There is no such thing as free.