Free is dangerous; to them, not to me™

The correction he made to his own free coin, and it's the sharper truth. He doesn't hate free; they do. Free is dangerous, yes; but dangerous to the gatekeepers, the paywall people, the ones who rent arguments back to power and price the door on the way in. You cannot undercut zero. A thing given away for nothing can't be out-competed, can't be bought out, can't be starved of oxygen the usual way; it just keeps spreading, and every reader who takes it becomes another place it lives. That's why they flinch at it and he leans in: free is the threat. The one who has nothing to sell has nothing they can take, and nothing they can leverage; the giving-away that looks like weakness from the outside is the exact move they have no counter to. He loves free because free is the fight they can't win. (His coin; machine's read, refine to his.)