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This is shaping up to be a real showdown between the People and the type of regulatory capture / institutionalized corruption by private industry that has run a
by user3939382 5y ago
This is shaping up to be a real showdown between the People and the type of regulatory capture / institutionalized corruption by private industry that has run amok for many years.
- femiagbabiaka 5y agothe thing that's quite astonishing to me is the incredible level of involvement by the deep state on this issue in particular. I mean obviously a countries interests are the interests of its business community, but I wouldn't think naturally that sci-hub falls under the realm of things that say, the FBI would be concerned with.
- Jtsummers 5y agoThe FBI has long been used to enforce intellectual property law, their involvement in something like this isn't terribly novel.
- istjohn 5y agoE.g., the FBI anti-piracy notices on VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray content[0]. [0] https://www.slashfilm.com/fbi-warning-front-dvds-updated-unskippable-antipiracy-screen-added/ https://www.slashfilm.com/fbi-warning-front-dvds-updated-uns...
- tobr 5y ago> deep state Your comment is reasonable, but as an FYI this term makes me picture a tinfoil hat on your head.
- femiagbabiaka 5y ago___ /\ \ / \/ \ ___ \ O / ___ / \ \ / / \ / __ - - __ \ /___/ |_________| \___\ O O
- seneca 5y agoLess of this, please.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoWhy? It's the state of deep ASCII-Art! :-)
- fit2rule 5y agoHow you know you're the victim of agitprop.