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Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by Funes- on Friday June 26, 2020 @05:20AM (#23650152)
>less than impeccable political expression

According to whom? Care to point us to some of those comments?

Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by entropyneur on Friday June 26, 2020 @06:19AM (#23650430)
According to me :). But there are quite a few people in Russia who would agree. It's in Russian, but here we go:

https://www.apn.ru/index.php?newsid=36204

It might be difficult to understand what's so bad without being embedded into the Russian political context. So here's some more direct stuff from SciHub social media:

https://vk.com/wall-36928352_38852 - Stalin quotes

https://vk.com/wall-36928352_37498 - comparing Stalin to Christ

Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by st1ck on Friday June 26, 2020 @07:53AM (#23650958)
Not sure why are you downvoted. Without knowing too much about Russian scientific community, in the first article she doesn't seem to say anything too bad. But on vk.com she seems to unironically go full Stalin (the guy who sent thousands of scientists and intellectuals to Gulags).
Re:Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin by entropyneur on Friday June 26, 2020 @08:22AM (#23651154)
TBH, without context I'd be 100% certain that those posts are ironic or just trolling. Thing is, in that interview and elsewhere she expresses views typical of other Stalinists, so it's unfortunately not that.