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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2019 09:05:42 EST Strypey

   I find it absurd when people accuse #SciHub of "stealing" from journal publishers. It is the publishers who are stealing, from the scholars who write, peer review and edit the journals without pay, from universities and their libraries who have to pay to so their researchers can publish papers *and* to get access to them, and from the public who fund all this, through public funding, tuition fees and so on.

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2019 09:12:20 EST Strypey

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      Besides, whenever people say it's wrong to do something fundamentally just, because it's currently against the law, I like to remind them that helping people escape slavery used to be against the law. When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2019 10:03:37 EST Strypey

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         I would love to see academics take a class action against the corporate journal publishers, demanding to be paid for all the work they've done writing and peer reviewing papers, editing journals, and so on. Those publishers are running a for-profit business. The workers who create all the value they make that profit from deserve at least minimum wage for their work. Instead they often get *charged* for working instead of paid!

      2. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 05-Mar-2019 12:37:12 EST Strypey

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         I would love to see the emergence of "pirate" journals, who #PeerReview and publish secret research, provided by whistleblowers working for corporations. All that research that companies don't publishing because it's not flattering to their products or their image, as #DrBenGoldacre talks about.
         https://www.badscience.net/2013/06/2950/