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Ok, I'm as anti-censorship as the next guy, but do we actually know _why_ the ACM publications board requested their removal?
by blahedo 17y ago
Ok, I'm as anti-censorship as the next guy, but do we actually know _why_ the ACM publications board requested their removal?
- scott_s 17y agoTake a look at the pages that are still up (which are for non-ACM conferences). They are a list of the proceedings, with links to freely available copies of all of the papers. Presumably, these papers are on the authors' websites. Note that the ACM copyright form explicitly allows authors to put up a copy of their published paper on their own website. So, from what I can surmise, they requested he take down links to material that is freely and legally available.
- blahedo 17y agoAh, I see. That does sound like the logical conclusion (and is just as icky as the poster suggests). But I'd still like to hear what basis ACM is using to, ah, "request" that the links be taken down.
- jacquesm 17y agoBecause they are deeplinks to papers. But that shouldn't matter, if the ACM wants to start putting those papers up in HTML for the world to read that would be my preference anyway.
- s3graham 17y ago> if the ACM wants to start putting those papers up in HTML ACM just set up a "trial deal" for access for programmers at my (largish) company. It's extremely expensive from what I've heard, so I don't think they're just going to throw them up on the web any time soon. ACM's web presence == shit.