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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @03:54PM (2 children)
Blocking Elsevier in /protest/ of their RESTRICTING ACCESS TO DATA that they don't like and saying we /should/ RESTRICT ACCESS TO DATA that we don't like, are contrary positions to hold. If you can't see that, try thinking for once instead of just drooling directly into the comment box.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Monday November 05 2018, @04:43PM (1 child)
You are absolutely correct, however..
*most* research is not about "how to acquire and train authoritarian followers and take over government".
Most chemistry research, anyway.
(Score: 3, Funny) by looorg on Monday November 05 2018, @05:05PM
Are you sure? Isn't most chemistry about either maintaining or breaking bonds. I'm sure there could be applications there for the violent exothermic reaction that eventually overthrows a government ...