Information as a public good, financed by an income / wealth indexed content tax, pro-rated to content authors, and/or basic income.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1uotb3/a_modes...

Rationale for information as a public good:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/2vm2da/why_inf...

And from Hal Varian (UC Berkeley / Google):

http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~hal/Papers/japan/japan.h...

Why micropayments (even with repudiation) won't work:

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...

The problem with advertising-financed publishing (from 1909):

https://archive.org/stream/commercialismjou00holtuoft#page/0...