I wouldn’t call it a backslide—that implies policies actively getting worse—more of a slowdown.

Alternative to CBS.

The crash over the weekend had no connection to the shooting last March.

Press X to Doubt.

There’s websites with paywalls that even Bypass Paywalls Clean can’t bypass. In cases that it can, it sometimes just fetches the article contents from archive.today.

That doesn’t mean an alternative shouldn’t be found, but we also shouldn’t pretend that nothing is being lost by losing access to unpaywalled sources. For practical purposes, a paywalled source means no source for most readers, unless a non-paywalled alternative can be found to replace it.

While archive.org is good and more trustworthy than archive.is, it isn’t as useful for bypassing paywalls.