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Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
- aminozuur 5y agoWhy?
- amatecha 5y agoYeah, would definitely be curious to see what reason Twitter gave (if any).
- tehnicaorg 5y agoProbably the same reason as at the beginning of January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838
- honiti 5y agoTwitter operates in a world where money is power and power is power and in the scheme of things Twitter doesn’t have much of either. The corporate governmental complex has made its threats clear.
- the_biot 5y agoYou misspelled "I don't know".
- _nicelaris_ 5y agoProbably because Twitter is an arm of the state and weaponized against threats to their desired monopoly on information
- findalex 5y agoWhy now is what I’m wondering.
- dredmorbius 5y agoThis morning, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan informed us that Twitter has suspended the site’s official account, which had over 185k followers and operated without notable issues for nine years. Elbakyan believes that it may be directly related to the legal action in India.... The reason for the suspension is related to Twitter’s “counterfeit policy.” The social media platform doesn’t list any concrete takedown requests but simply mentions the policy violation and the fact that its decision can’t be appealed. “Your account has been permanently suspended due to a violation of Twitter policies, in particular the Counterfeiting Policy. This decision is not subject to appeal,” Twitter writes, translated from Russian. (January 8, 2021) https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-twitter-ban-over-over-counterfeit-content-210108/ https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-t...
- gr__or 5y agoI am wondering if it's because they were linking to the Sci-Hub pages in both tweets and the profile
- andyxor 5y agojoin sci-hub rescue mission https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_... there is a new p2p client being developed (in Go) that makes sci-hub papers accessible via DOI https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/ompcvk/need_help_from_libgen_scimag_archive_data_holder/ https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/comments/ompcvk/need_help_fr... it could use some help with indexing & IPFS integration (or just code review), see e.g. https://github.com/Trim21/sci-hub-p2p/pull/23 https://github.com/Trim21/sci-hub-p2p/pull/23
- agilob 5y agoWith commits like: * fix (lines changed: +1,645 −95) * style * update * config * fix * fix style I have no trust for developer of this project Also these are torrents for libgen and sorted by torrents that needs seeders the most: https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php https://phillm.net/libgen-seeds-needed.php
- rzzzt 5y agoThey squash commits when PRs are merged and use "Conventional Commits"-styled messages in the main branch: https://www.conventionalcommits.org/ https://www.conventionalcommits.org/
- the_biot 5y agoI don't mean to sound cynical about such projects with good intentions, but I'm not convinced this effort will last without the cooperation and approval from the sci-hub admin herself. Having said that, any alternative way to access sci-hub would have to use a p2p architecture just like this.
- Anunayj 5y agoLooking at the project, They don't really connect to SciHub at all, SciHub on downloading a paper (using the credentials) saves it on libgen so it could be accessed later by others quickly. These just look like attempts to p2ping easy access to libgen (Which has a huge database (public), and would be sad to lose)
- villgax 5y agoPretty stupid of twitter to suspend someone for not actually linking to pirated content. By that logic anyone working on NewPipe/FOSS P2P clients could also be removed if targeted by govts/publishing houses-lobbying
- agilob 5y agoRemember how youtube-dl and torrent tracker nyaa were DMCAed from GitHub?
- villgax 5y agoOnly after a lot of heat on HN & twitter did they do anything
- toomuchtodo 5y agoWhich is why the heat and pressure is important.
- submeta 5y agoI am no scientist, and I have no access to paywalled platforms and publications. So Sci-Hub is my only available option, and it is increadibly valuable when it comes to doing research on a specific topic. - I can remember the old days of the internet, pre-wikipedia, when encyclopedias were a paid thing. And I did not have the means to subscribe to them. And I remember the days of the internet pre sci-hub, where a layman had no access to publications. Those were sad days. We should not go back to those days. Everyone should support efforts that are towards the vision of shared knowledge, accessible by anyone. Especially in a world where misinformation is spreading like a virus.
- Beldin 5y agoNot to take away from Sci-Hub, but even without institutional access, there are often alternatives: - more and more research institutes have a public repository of articles. - plenty of authors put their own (preprints of) papers on their personal website, a preprint server like arxiv, or researchgate. - lastly, you can mail an author and request a preprint. Not all will reply, but plenty will be happy that someone noticed their work and send a copy.
- rzzzt 5y agoCiteSeerˣ is a great resource for CS papers: https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/index
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 5y agoImagine if every citation contained a URL: "Email author to request a preprint". Authors often include email addresses in papers or at least an affiliated instution. Their contact information is usually public. Aside from people who have been graduate students not many doing research are going to understand that this is possible. Never have I seen a citations service that makes users aware of it. There must be reasons they dont.
- selfhoster11 5y agoThose take effort and time (hours or days) to make them work. Sci-Hub type solutions are the only way to make this work at scale.
- cblconfederate 5y agoWhy? Did she forget to declare her pronouns?
- machinehermiter 5y agoAs someone who hasn't used social media in 5+ years, what do these social networks need to do to make you quit using them? There has to be some threshold but I just don't understand how this threshold hasn't been crossed for more people. I don't want to see Twitter legislated or controlled. The counter balance and equilibrium should be doing crazy things causes a massive loss of users so crazy things do not happen. Twitter is not a public utility like electricity or drinking water. You actually need to drink water.
- belval 5y agoOther humans acknowledging your existence and even agreeing with your various opinions is a very very euphoric experience, it is true of any social media. Suddenly you have hundreds or even thousands of people that "get" you, that understand how great and clever you are. This is the drug that people can't quit. People won't quit because they'd be unable to tell people that they've quit. Another take could be that we are just all very lonely and that when you stop using social media you are left with emptiness that is harder to fill with real connections with friends especially during covid.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> Other humans acknowledging your existence and even agreeing with your various opinions is a very very euphoric experience, it is true of any social media. Suddenly you have hundreds or even thousands of people that "get" you, that understand how great and clever you are. This is the drug that people can't quit. It’s always funny to see people discussing “social media” as some insidious drug that other people use to get confirmation about their opinions from other people… …as comments on Hacker News, a site that lets people post their opinions and have other humans acknowledge their existence and validate their opinions (upvotes == likes). We can debate the differences between real names and screen names and pictures or no pictures all day, but when it comes down to it Hacker News is a social media platform and you’re participating in the very thing you’re describing. It’s time we stopped pretending that “social media” is only something that other people use, while the rest of us on HN and other social platforms are doing something more noble. It’s all the same.
- _1tan 5y agoIs the source code of the Sci-hub proxy open source (i.e. their secret sauce)?
- Anunayj 5y agoSciHub relies on credentials donated (or sold) by people with access to journals to obtain the papers. (If you are in a university, your university likely provides access to many journals and pays for it on your behalf). So yeah, even if they did open source the code, you'll still need to obtain the credentials somehow. Which isn't very pratical.
- betwixthewires 5y agoWell, that's not necessarily true for current existing documents that are already available. I believe they're pinned on IPFS nodes, and so are available through IPFS. So if you did clone their front end and index you should be able to continue operating the system, at least with current availability. What would be nice would be a distributed table that functions as an index specifically for these documents, that way researchers with access could pin to IPFS themselves and add the keywords and content hash to the table. This would be basically unstoppable.
- xvilka 5y agoUnless company behind IPFS bans it. They are a US company after all.
- londons_explore 5y agoThe fact IPFS effectively allows anyone to 'ban' a content hash makes it effectively useless.
- betwixthewires 5y agoIs that true? As in, I can ban a hash and nobody can then access it? I've never heard of that.
- tbabej 5y agoSuspension of Sci-Hub's twitter account is a shame. This is not new development however, the Twitter account has been suspended since early January 2021 [0,1]. [0]: http://web.archive.org/web/20210109003829/https://twitter.com/sci_hub http://web.archive.org/web/20210109003829/https://twitter.co... [1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-account-sci-hub-pirated-papers-website https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/twitter-shuts-down-a...
- b9be520d93286 5y agoTheir platform their rules. Scihub can create their own twitter. Edit /s for those missing the point
- varelse 5y agoWhy that's true! It's a real shame some people don't understand there's no first amendment protection on social media. Nor is there at your day job, but I digress.
- rvz 5y agoThere you go. They can suspend or ban whoever they want and whenever due to their slippery 'guidelines' and even if you criticise them or attempt to sue them over this, they will just say: 'Too bad. We just a private platform and the account violated our guidelines.' Do people 'really' think that they 'own' their Twitter accounts when they can be taken away in an instant?
- einpoklum 5y agoPhone company cut my line today. They said I am too critical of their parent company in my conversations. But - what can I do? Their phone platform, their rules. Right?
- Channel16 5y agoStick with the truth over lies. Your line wasn't cut.
- mandmandam 5y agoThanks for the helpful reminder to honesty, brand new account in classic world/number format.
- lamontcg 5y agobe your own phone company
- m-p-3 5y agoIs SciHub available on other social media platforms, ie Mastodon?
- dredmorbius 5y agoNot that I'm aware. There's a bot which repeats the Twitter account: https://botsin.space/@scihub https://botsin.space/@scihub That's not updated in over a year. Alexandra Albakyan's personal Twitter account remains effective AFAIU: https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/ https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/
- dcow 5y agoHow does Jack live with himself? Is Twitter getting paid by publishers? I guess he’s just your typical liberal democrat, after all. All talk no guts.
- dredmorbius 5y agoAlexandra Albakyan's personal Twitter account remains effective AFAIU: https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/ https://twitter.com/ringo_ring/
- findalex 5y agoWhy now?
- elnatro 5y agoHow many TB is sci-hub database? Could a home server serve those papers through BitTorrent?
- tokai 5y ago>50
- elnatro 5y agoYikes that’s too mucho for a home setup…
- bleachedsleet 5y agor/datahoarder would disagree
- rainbowzootsuit 5y agoThe segments are much smaller at 100GB each. Please see this thread for some information. https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/ https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_...