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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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