How did the free sharing of scientific knowledge and culture become the worst crime our justice systems could think of?

lkfitz's bookmarks 2017-11-20

Summary:

"Sci-Hub is starting to get judgments and censorship applied against it. It’s noteworthy that not even murder or genocide is considered cause for such Internet censorship as is now being applied to Sci-Hub. How and when did the free sharing of scientific knowledge become the worst conceivable crime?"

Link:

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/11/how-did-the-free-sharing-of-scientific-knowledge-and-culture-become-the-worst-crime-our-justice-systems-could-think-of/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » lkfitz's bookmarks

Tags:

oa.new oa.litigtion oa.sci-hub oa.piracy oa.publishers oa.guerrilla

Date tagged:

11/20/2017, 09:18

Date published:

11/20/2017, 04:18