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Why?

• amatecha 5y ago
  Yeah, would definitely be curious to see what reason Twitter gave (if any).
  • tehnicaorg 5y ago
    Probably 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 ago
  Twitter 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 ago
    You misspelled "I don't know".
• _nicelaris_ 5y ago
  Probably because Twitter is an arm of the state and weaponized against threats to their desired monopoly on information
• findalex 5y ago
  Why now is what I’m wondering.
• dredmorbius 5y ago
  This 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 ago
  I am wondering if it's because they were linking to the Sci-Hub pages in both tweets and the profile