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Be Alexandra Elbakyan (twitter.com/mushtaqbilalphd)
105 points by DanielleMolloy 6 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 11 comments
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So I imagine, with some irony, that she can avoid US courts because Russia doesn't have an extradition agreement. To some extent, it seems like content sharing apps are often Russia based. So evading shutdown in Western nations requires a hostile regime. So free access to Western, public-funded, scientific research relies on Russian networks and jurisdiction often.

Also why Rutracker is by far the best public tracker.

She's a hero.

is Sci-Hub still updated for new papers?

These massive green text attempts started becoming common recently and honestly they’re excruciatingly boring. Misses the entire value of the medium. Very “hello, fellow kids”.


The Elsevier reply is infuriating. The system is broken.

https://nitter.space/MushtaqBilalPhD/status/2049485871699931...


That’s not a reply, it’s sarcasm by the same poster pretending to speak for the publisher as a joke.

What part of the reply is not factually correct? (premium gold+ open access article for $50000?)

Some people look best in the warm glow of their own pyre.

Um......



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