Be Alexandra Elbakyan

(twitter.com)

117 points | by DanielleMolloy 18 hours ago ago

18 comments

  • onetimeusename 15 hours ago ago

    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.

    • ahartmetz 11 hours ago ago

      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.

    • ls612 13 hours ago ago

      Also why Rutracker is by far the best public tracker.

      • r721 10 hours ago ago

        Rutracker is blocked in Russia.

        • ls612 an hour ago ago

          Isn't that because they are anti-Putin not because of copyright?

  • mjd 16 hours ago ago

    She's a hero.

  • ipsum2 16 hours ago ago

    is Sci-Hub still updated for new papers?

  • stefantalpalaru 5 hours ago ago

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  • qzgrid37 15 hours ago ago

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  • ChrisArchitect 15 hours ago ago
  • renewiltord 15 hours ago ago

    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”.

  • metadat 17 hours ago ago

    The Elsevier reply is infuriating. The system is broken.

    https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049485871699931...

    • Revanche1367 16 hours ago ago

      That’s not a reply, it’s sarcasm by the same poster pretending to speak for the publisher as a joke.

      • d0mine 12 hours ago ago

        What part of the reply is not factually correct? (premium gold+ open access article for $50000?)

        • Revanche1367 7 hours ago ago

          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.

    • crest 16 hours ago ago

      Some people look best in the warm glow of their own pyre.

    • hmartin 16 hours ago ago

      Um......