Be Alexandra Elbakyan
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https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/20490573440138815... So I imagine, with some irony, that she can avoid US courts because Russia doesn't have an extradition agreement. To some extent, it seems like content sharing apps are often Russia based. So evading shutdown in Western nations requires a hostile regime. So free access to Western, public-funded, scientific research relies on Russian networks and jurisdiction often. Also why Rutracker is by far the best public tracker. Rutracker is blocked in Russia. Isn't that because they are anti-Putin not because of copyright? It definitely started with copyright infringement dispute in 2015 (with Russian authors/publishers though), and I don't remember any anti-Putin statements from them (though it's possible I missed something). When the system is so bad that fighting it improves it. It's a standard feature of a decent, non-totalitarian political system that it improves that way. Just don't tell Putin. But he wouldn't get it anyway. Totalitarian and democratic regimes often have basic problems understanding each other. She's a hero. is Sci-Hub still updated for new papers? Source: https://twitter.com/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/20490573440138815... Instead of links from randoms These massive green text attempts started becoming common recently and honestly they’re excruciatingly boring. Misses the entire value of the medium. Very “hello, fellow kids”. The Elsevier reply is infuriating. The system is broken. https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049485871699931... That’s not a reply, it’s sarcasm by the same poster pretending to speak for the publisher as a joke. What part of the reply is not factually correct? (premium gold+ open access article for $50000?) I didn’t say it wasn’t factually correct. I assumed it was mostly correct, perhaps a bit sensationalist for comedic purposes. I found it quite funny actually. My answer above was just that it was not actually written by the Elsevier company like that user seems to have thought. Some people look best in the warm glow of their own pyre. Um......