FBI subpoenaed Apple for data of Sci-Hub founder

Post by janeroe » Fri, May 14, 2021, 3:21 PM UTC

dang wrote: post #270

janeroe wrote: post #161

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> you really underestimate the power of smear ... campaigns Not much they can do really. Elbakyan is a Stalinist who thinks the mass killer was a saint sent by God. She discredits herself at interviews and on her personal web-site just fine. None of that matters. People are using sci-hub because it's useful, crazyness of its author is irrelevant.

Your account has been using HN primarily for ideological battle. That's against the site guidelines and we ban accounts that do it, regardless of which ideology they're battling for or against. We have to, because it destroys the curious conversation that HN is supposed to be for. Would you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use this site in the intended spirit from now on? We'd be gra…