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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: 2) by Oakenshield on Wednesday November 07 2018, @05:41PM (1 child)
I thought the quote was that an armed society is a polite society, not non-violent or crime free. Regardless, we *have* fallen as a society. We have the largest prison population in the world. We have daily road rage incidents. There are people being shot over items of insignificant value. Fights break out over perceived insult to ego. Way too many people place no value on the lives of others.
You would like to think that your handgun will protect you if you are attacked, when in reality you are statistically unlikely to have time or opportunity to produce it when most needed. However, if it were known by the attacker in advance that you were armed, you would be much less likely be attacked. Bullies choose not to victimize those who are able to defend themselves. This is the point. You can try to throw in sociological or psychological justifications of why this should not be, but reality wins.
You certainly have proven your point though being armed and one of the most impolite humans I have ever met. Next time, make an effort to debate without jumping straight to ad homonyms.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 09 2018, @05:26AM
Oh cry harder, asshole. I'm not "nice," and have not been "nice" for several years now. This is what you jerkoffs call "not being politically correct," innit? Odd how your kind are the flakiest of snowflakes despite all the tough talk. If you can't stand the heat, get off the pot, as the saying doesn't go.
Now, you seem reasonably intelligent, and you have at least a partial grasp on the problems at hand. You mention, in the middle of that list, "people being shot over items of insignificant value." What, precisely, are these people being shot with? Please think about that in context of the rest of your post.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...