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Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier
[...] Unfortunately for Swedes and for science, the Swedish Patent and Market Court (which never met a copyright overreach it didn't love) upheld the order, and Bahnhof, a small ISP with limited resources, decided not to appeal (a bigger, richer ISP had just lost a similar appeal).
Instead, Bahnhof now blocks attempts to visit Sci-Hub domains, and Elsevier.com, redirecting attempts to visit Elsevier to a page explaining how Elsevier's sleaze and bullying have allowed it to monopolize scientific publishing, paywalling publicly funded science that is selected, reviewed and edited by volunteers who mostly work for publicly funded institutions.
To as[sic] icing on this revenge-flavored cake, Bahnhof also detects attempts to visit its own site from the Patent and Market Court and redirects them to a page explaining that since the Patent and Market Court believes that parts of the web should be blocked, Bahnhof is blocking the court's access to its part of the web.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @07:01PM (1 child)
Essentially, you're saying "We need a government to save us from a government." You're admitting that your government idea is the failure mode of my idea.
You know what, though? Thank god for competition in the world; thank god there has never been One World Government—even among explicitly authoritarian organizations, competition is what has kept the peace, a peace which has only grown more stable as these organizations have been forced to adopt increasingly capitalistic principles of interaction.
Competition: The ultimate form of checks and balances; the ultimate separation of powers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday November 06 2018, @05:01AM
Er, no. YOU are the hypocrite here, not me. Hypocrisy, projection, and willful ignorance are the gibbertarian Holy Trinity and you're one of the single most pathological examples I've ever met.
Catch a fucking clue, asshole: power goes to power, money goes to money, wealth goes to wealth, and the accretion is a positive feedback loop. Get beyond a certain level of wealth and power, and there is no longer any line between government and private entity, not least because of all the disgusting, incestuous mixing between the two.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...