A decade and a half into the great online experiment, the last debates over free versus pay online are ending.

经过十多年伟大的在线试验，免费与付费之间的对决正步入终结。

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Heated debates and arguments often erupt in meetings. This is simply a function of the free-flow of ideas.

会议上经常会爆发热烈的争论和辩论，这个只是代表了各种观点自由地交流。

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"But what we showed here is that we can make progress when we are willing to break free from some of the stale debates and old ideologies that have dominated and distorted the debate in this hemisphere for far too long,"

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But in America's free-ranging debates, where the spectrum of views on Islam is probably wider than in any Muslim land or even in Europe, there are also many voices on the other side.

ECONOMIST: Islam and democracy

After a further 30 to 40 years, or somewhere thereabouts, cash will be eliminated from our economy after the nation has had a plethora of free and wide-ranging debates about this issue.

FORBES: The Perils Of A Cashless Society

We can still check every comment before publication if we wish, but in the spirit of this new approach I expect more debates to be free-flowing, and only moderated if an inappropriate comment is posted.

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