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I for one am glad that our new moral enforcers are keeping us safe from the possibility of free academic knowledge.
by bArray 6y ago
I for one am glad that our new moral enforcers are keeping us safe from the possibility of free academic knowledge.
- CobrastanJorji 6y agoMoral and legal are different. I think Sci-Hub is ethical. I'm under no illusions that this somehow makes it legal. Sci-Hub explicitly bills itself as a "pirate website." Twitter's rules explicitly ban both copyright violation and illegal activities. Therefore Sci-Hub is violation of Twitter's rules. Twitter may well be very selective in their enforcement, but the fact that Sci-Hub is violating Twitter's rules is not in doubt, is it?
- garaetjjte 6y agoDid Sci-Hub Twitter account shared copyrighted material actually?
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- orionblastar 6y agoWhat about The Pirate Bay account? Should it be banned as well?
- sebmellen 6y agoFor that matter, what about the Pirate Party?
- harry8 6y agoAnd every single person advocating civil disobedience. From legalize pot on. Which countries' laws? It's kind of illegal in civilized countries to decapitate homosexuals. Will twitter ban this account now: https://twitter.com/ksamofaen?lang=en https://twitter.com/ksamofaen?lang=en They're kind of for it. Anyway as Matt Levine points out everything is securities fraud nowadays so when any of these decisions burn the share price even a bit, they'll get a class action to deal with. Not sure that's the right way to deal with this sort of thing at all but here we are.
- LdSGSgvupDV 6y agoPlenty of derivative creation (ex: meme) probably has the copyright issue. Should twitter ban them all?
- watwut 6y agoMeme falls under fair use usually.
- paraselene_ 6y agoThey really don't. e.g. distracted boyfriend meme is definitely copyrighted, just adding text on it does not make it fair use.