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She? Is there someone publicly affiliated with the project?
by mooseburger 11y ago
She? Is there someone publicly affiliated with the project?
- temp 11y agoYes, Alexandra Elbakyan, a researcher from Kazakhstan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub
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- thesimon 11y ago>Despite seizure of the websites as ordered by a New York district court on October 28, 2015, the site is still accessible through alternative domains as of December 2015. So a court in the United States could seize a site just because the plaintiff was based there? Or because the .org domain registry (PIR) is based in the US?
- olympus 11y agoA little bit of both. A US citizen can sue foreign nationals in US courts, but a judgement can't be enforced unless the foreign national steps foot in the US or has a US based asset. In this case, the .org domain is controlled on US soil, so that's about all the court can do unless some crazy extradition arrangement is made or she accidentally forgets and comes to the US for a conference or something.
- nols 11y agoThe US says it can seize all domains whose registrars are based in the US, so .com, .org, .net, etc are all vulnerable.
- Fiahil 11y agoIt's amazing that retaliations following this initiative would make it close to impossible to do for anyone in the United States. Kudos to her.
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- itg 11y agoYes, Russian neuroscientist Alexandra Elbakyan.
- the_mitsuhiko 11y agoKazakh.
- melted 11y agoActually, the surname seems to be Armenian. :-)
- aksquestions 11y agoEthnic Russian from Kazakhstan.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoAttributing the correct ethnicity seems to matter a lot more outside of the US, Canada, and Commonwealth. I got an earful (screenful?) for calling a historical ethnic Russian painter Ukrainian, just because he was born in current-day Ukraine. This all predates the current conflict, and was from someone I'd consider educated, too.
- mavdi 11y agoIn my experience US, Canada and Commonwealth are the ones obsessed with (positively or negatively) ethnicity and race.
- JabavuAdams 11y agoRace, yes, but nobody born here asks me "where are you from?" upon first meeting, whereas I get this a lot from europeans and people from more tribal societies.
- pen2l 11y agoI'm an American, and I get asked "where are you from?" almost every time I meet a new person here (in America). I look very non-American and have an accent most people find hard to pin down, so I'm thinking that the question is just not posed to people who look and 'speak' very American.