On: Twitter shuts down account of Sci-Hub

[bArray]

I for one am glad that our new moral enforcers are keeping us safe from the possibility of free academic knowledge.

[CobrastanJorji → bArray]

Moral and legal are different.

I think Sci-Hub is ethical. I'm under no illusions that this somehow makes it legal.

Sci-Hub explicitly bills itself as a "pirate website." Twitter's rules explicitly ban both copyright violation and illegal activities. Therefore Sci-Hub is violation of Twitter's rules.

Twitter may well be very selective in their enforcement, but the fact that Sci-Hub is violating Twitter's rules is not in doubt, is it?

[garaetjjte → CobrastanJorji]

Did Sci-Hub Twitter account shared copyrighted material actually?

[orionblastar → CobrastanJorji]

What about The Pirate Bay account? Should it be banned as well?

[sebmellen → orionblastar]

For that matter, what about the Pirate Party?

[harry8 → sebmellen]

And every single person advocating civil disobedience. From legalize pot on.

Which countries' laws? It's kind of illegal in civilized countries to decapitate homosexuals. Will twitter ban this account now: https://twitter.com/ksamofaen?lang=en They're kind of for it.

Anyway as Matt Levine points out everything is securities fraud nowadays so when any of these decisions burn the share price even a bit, they'll get a class action to deal with. Not sure that's the right way to deal with this sort of thing at all but here we are.

[LdSGSgvupDV → CobrastanJorji]

Plenty of derivative creation (ex: meme) probably has the copyright issue. Should twitter ban them all?

[watwut → LdSGSgvupDV]

Meme falls under fair use usually.

[paraselene_ → watwut]

They really don't. e.g. distracted boyfriend meme is definitely copyrighted, just adding text on it does not make it fair use.