[Air-L] Ethics of analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles

Hello dear AOIR colleagues, What are the ethical guidelines for analyzing reader comments to newspaper articles for newspapers behind a paywall? An example would be The New York Times. Reader comments are not accessible unless one is a paid subscriber or unless an article is gifted. Is this similar to Facebook where groups are not public? For context, I have a couple of articles where I want to analyze the reader comments. Hoping to get some insight. Thanks, Regina Sent from [1]Mail for Windows References 1. https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986