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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, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @08:01PM
"So you're advocating for strong gun control because it's guns, not people using guns, that kill people?"
I would advocate for strong gun control because that's the only thing that will at least try to verify the quality of the person receiving the gun in question, thus hopefully preventing the people using guns to kill people won't be receiving the gun to do their dirty work. Will they still kill people? Maybe. Depends entirely on how determined or lazy they are. But people don't suddenly say "Fuck, I can't get a gun. Let's go kill people I don't like." nearly as much as "Fuck, I got a gun. Let's go kill people I don't like."
Bottom line, if you're a person that can be trusted with a gun, you're likely not going to affected by gun control laws. (And I'm not bringing racism into this with how african americans and the like will be unfairly judged etc since most of the people that bitch about gun control laws are white men.)