Sensational. I'm probably late to this, but Twitter nuked the SciHub account
You couldn't ask for a better example of knowledge democratization than SciHub and Libgen, but of course we'll just continue diagnosing Twitter's clampdown entirely through the lens of sweeping the batshit right off the platform
Yep, I am late to this. Twitter won't answer why they've suspended the account. https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22220738/twitter-sci-hub-suspended-indian-court-case
Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case

Sci-Hub’s account was gathering statements of support

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/8/22220738/twitter-sci-hub-suspended-indian-court-case
We can sit with this remedial "Private companies can't infringe on your free speech rights" analysis, or we can grow up, look around, and understand that we don't gather in the agora, and we don't communicate through telegram and broadsheets any more.
Social media companies have effectively created an oligarchy on online political speech, and are completely unaccountable to the public. That that doesn't bother people simply because they finally swatted down the people we don't like should be alarming.
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