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what service is that?

• jacquesm 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub "For her actions in creating Sci-Hub, Elbakyan has been called a hero and "spiritual successor to Aaron Swartz"."
  • HarryHirsch 8y ago
    You ask why Elbakyan is politically protected but Swatrz was not. Does Russia have no publishing conglomerates?
    • jacquesm 8y ago
      I did not ask that. She's on the run as far as I know. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meet-the-woman-who-put-50-million-stolen-articles-online-so-you-can-read-them-for-free-a6964176.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/meet-the-w... And it is 'Swartz'.
    • SXX 8y ago
      First of all she is hiding and possible not even within Russian border. So no clue where your idea of political protection is come from. And there is little point in arresting her: there are far more people working on project and nothing going to happen if public face going to disappear. What's more important it's can be tough to actually prove she actually did something illegal on her own. Of course for political activists there is no evidence required to put them in prison in Russia / Kazakhstan, but she is pro-Kremlin so it's not apply here.
    • gkya 8y ago
      She's one _real_ hero. You should quit this neo-cold-war complottist baseless scatter-blaming.
    • namlem 8y ago
      She is based in Kazakhstan, and they don't exactly have a domestic science publishing industry, no.
  • dublinben 8y ago
    It would be ironic if she won MIT's "disobedience" award: https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/ https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/disobedience-award/
    • jacquesm 8y ago
      Maybe ask Hal Abelson to do the address during the ceremony?
• smokeyj 8y ago
  http://swartz-report.mit.edu http://swartz-report.mit.edu
  • toomuchgov 8y ago
    So upsetting.