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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, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 06 2018, @04:22PM
Violent reaction to speech is fascism. Violence in only justified in the defense of freedom. You draw first blood, you're the bad guy. And in this case also, the ISP is the bad guy. Censorship is always evil. Elsevier is just mouthing off (kinda like you do). The people (ISP) that acquiesce to them are the evil ones.
The reason I don't take you seriously is because you are just being silly, looking for a reaction. I would call it trolling, but that's too negative. The funny mod works best for you, for levity's sake. Gotta keep things positive.