Rupert Murdoch is quickly moving into the space usually reserved for Jack Thompson, Michael Arrington, and the Internet Tough Guy.

Murdoch has decided the Internet is broken, because it breaks part of his outdated business model. It breaks it so badly, that revenues are down considerably year on year, and he intends to put up a ‘paywall’ around all his news sites. This includes the Wall Street Journal and the Down Jones publications. No word if he will extend it to sites like IGN – which is a news site, but not in the traditional sense, but it is part of his media empire.

To add insult to injory, he wants subscriber information from Kindle users. It seems that he’s not really gotten clued into the fact that the users of the internet will just… go somewhere else. Part of me is excited to see him push for all these silly things, and then watch his revenue streams fall apart even faster.

My solution to these problems: add the sites to your hosts file as follows (just below your entry blocking about.com):

``Rupert Murdoch is quickly moving into the space usually reserved for Jack Thompson, Michael Arrington, and the Internet Tough Guy.

Murdoch has decided the Internet is broken, because it breaks part of his outdated business model. It breaks it so badly, that revenues are down considerably year on year, and he intends to put up a ‘paywall’ around all his news sites. This includes the Wall Street Journal and the Down Jones publications. No word if he will extend it to sites like IGN – which is a news site, but not in the traditional sense, but it is part of his media empire.

To add insult to injory, he wants subscriber information from Kindle users. It seems that he’s not really gotten clued into the fact that the users of the internet will just… go somewhere else. Part of me is excited to see him push for all these silly things, and then watch his revenue streams fall apart even faster.

My solution to these problems: add the sites to your hosts file as follows (just below your entry blocking about.com):

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