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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by tokai on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:31AM (#27782259)
It is getting a bit embarrassing. Wished she disregarded things about her person. All kind of stuff is going to be said and written about you when your a globally known person. Better, and healthier, to focus on defending the cause and not yourself.
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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by duiker101 on Friday July 09, 2021 @06:39AM (#27782299)
Way easier said than done. Especially for someone that maybe wasn't searching to be fully in the spotlight or that is not used to it.
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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by pessimizer on Friday July 09, 2021 @08:25AM (#27782946)
> All kind of stuff is going to be said and written about you when your a globally known person.

There are powerful people who would be happy to imprison or kill her. It's weird to call a revolutionary who is in the spotlight paranoid. A couple of administration changes and a sex or bribery scandal in some place she's never even visited could set off a series of events where she ends up like Assange or worse.

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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by ipaddr on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:57AM (#27783710)
That is already in the works. Sweden has a woman who have already made false statements that she has withdrawn but they are using the rape charges to get her to the US.
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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by phone8675309 on Friday July 09, 2021 @09:11AM (#27783307)
> There are powerful people who would be happy to imprison or kill her.

Imprison? Sure. I’ll even grant you "financially ruined" from lawsuits, but who wants her dead?

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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by SuoDuanDao on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:49AM (#27784252)
It may be my personal bias, but I'd imagine anyone whose role makes her their enemy would lack the moral fibre to care about the distinction.
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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by worldsayshi on Friday July 09, 2021 @10:09AM (#27783813)
Yeah but it feels is neither weird to be called or be paranoid in that situation. Some things that Assange has said definitely comes off as paranoid and perhaps completely off but he also has had more reasons than almost anyone to be paranoid.

When you have powerful enemies and know it you're probably not better at recognizing where they are lurking about than anyone else. So you end up lashing out at shadows. Who can blame you.

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Re:How The Chronicle is trying to malign Sci-Hub by wolverine876 on Saturday July 10, 2021 @01:28AM (#27791332)
> There are powerful people who would be happy to imprison or kill her.

Kill her? What evidence is there of that?

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