Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content

Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by hagibborim on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:21AM (#25685528)

I donated ~$300 to SciHub and encourage you all to donate as well. Please give what you can, her bitcoin address can be found at the bottom of the homepage.

https://sci-hub.do/

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by breck on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:30AM (#25685620)

Also please post somewhere your support of her with your real name, and reach out with kind words. Every PhD I know relies on this site, but more importantly 10x+ more people I know who are otherwise "outside" academia rely on this site. How many of the world's best researchers in 30 years will have turned out to get their start in research not thanks to Academia but thanks to SciHub? My guess is most of them.

And make no mistake, people are trying to have her killed.

"Elbakyan may be working with Russian military intelligence. The story says she may have been stealing US military secrets from defense contractors"

I just copy/pasted this horseshit from Elsevier’s website right now.

Let's provide her with the support and strength to win this war.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by _Wintermute on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:36AM (#25686407)

I mentioned Elbakyan and sci-hub in my PhD thesis acknowledgements. Hardly anyone will see it but it still felt like a little two-fingers to academic publishing.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by vslira on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:20PM (#25687825)

Citing

"Sci-hub", Elbakyan A. et al

is definitely an academic trend I'd support :)

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by chpill on Friday January 08, 2021 @04:29PM (#25690763)

The page from elsevier website for those who want to check

https://www.elsevier.com/connect/allegations-linking-sci-hub...

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by hagibborim on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:42AM (#25685749)

Very good point, and I didn't know that bit of slander against her.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by mariuolo on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:46AM (#25685798)

> "Elbakyan may be working with Russian military intelligence. The story says she may have been stealing US military secrets from defense contractors"

And how is sci-hub connected to that?

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by hedora on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:59AM (#25685950)

The same way the false [1] allegations against Julian Assange are related to Wikileaks.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22201381

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by rarefied_tomato on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:01AM (#25685982)

I'm not aware of any facts supporting Elsevier's accusation, and I would characterize it as intentional disinformation.

Elbakyan runs Sci-Hub.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by mncharity on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:20AM (#25686199)

Is there an Easy Sci-Hub Donation for Dummies?

scihub.org/donate/ looks scam.

https://sci-hub.tech/donation/ at least has the same bitcoin address as sci-hub.do, but as for PayPal et al... ???

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by reader345611 on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:52PM (#25688416)

I think the Wikipedia's scihub page [0] can always be relied upon to know the current canonical URL.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sci-Hub

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by Cenk on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:53AM (#25686647)

.org is definitely a different site and organization, they intentionally blur the lines to make people think they are associated with Sci-Hub.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by givepause on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:42PM (#25697113)

It's a different site but they are not pretending to be Sci-Hub. The Chinese scam site is.

SciHub.org was formed in 2008 and has 50 employees per CrunchBase.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/science-hub

Real organization, coincidentally a very similar domain and area of work.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by givepause on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:39PM (#25697088)

That's a scam site. Visit the official VK page for real links.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by hagibborim on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:31AM (#25686356)

.do seems like the canonical domain

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by teddyh on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:34PM (#25694787)

https://whereisscihub.now.sh/

(Currently redirects to https://sci-hub.41610.org/)

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by givepause on Friday January 08, 2021 @11:44PM (#25697129)

https://sci-hub.do

https://sci-hub.st

https://sci-hub.se

are the only working domains that have been linked from the official Twitter, VK, or FB accounts.

All other URLs should be considered unofficial or scams.

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by bra-ket on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:45PM (#25688237)

It’s https://sci-hub.do/ or https://sci-hub.ren (that .tech and .org domains are different organizations)

To be sure try searching for some random paywalled academic paper on their site

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Re:Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Count... by bra-ket on Friday January 08, 2021 @01:48PM (#25688314)

or http://sci-hub.ren

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