Re:Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
by aminozuur on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:33AM
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Why?
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Re:Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
by dredmorbius on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:33PM
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This morning, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan informed us that Twitter has suspended the site’s official account, which had over 185k followers and operated without notable issues for nine years. Elbakyan believes that it may be directly related to the legal action in India....
The reason for the suspension is related to Twitter’s “counterfeit policy.” The social media platform doesn’t list any concrete takedown requests but simply mentions the policy violation and the fact that its decision can’t be appealed.
“Your account has been permanently suspended due to a violation of Twitter policies, in particular the Counterfeiting Policy. This decision is not subject to appeal,” Twitter writes, translated from Russian.
(January 8, 2021)
https://torrentfreak.com/sci-hub-founder-criticises-sudden-t...
Yeah, would definitely be curious to see what reason Twitter gave (if any).
Re:Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
by tehnicaorg on Saturday July 24, 2021 @03:41AM
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Probably the same reason as at the beginning of January: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25684838
I am wondering if it's because they were linking to the Sci-Hub pages in both tweets and the profile
Why now is what I’m wondering.
Re:Sci-Hub Twitter account suspended
by _nicelaris_ on Saturday July 24, 2021 @11:21AM
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Probably because Twitter is an arm of the state and weaponized against threats to their desired monopoly on information
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