Man, what happened to plebbit from 2008 to now?
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Anyway, can I have a little bit of the attention that I crave?
https://www.deviantart.com/goldenweaveanimation/art/1194700965
People credit him for reddit's free speech back then, which was awesome, nothing to say about that, but his peak and his primary focus was open sourcing academia papers.
https://capitalaspower.com/2019/12/the-legacy-of-aaron-swartz-the-fight-for-open-access/
this is something sci-hub, which is based in Russia is doing.
Most scientific articles are paywalled and often very high priced (30$ PER ARTICLE). Only the introduction and results, less than 1 page, are available for free.
This is incredibly bad for research all around, not just for the common folk. Sure, your university may have access to some journals but there are so many journals now it's impossible to keep up.
I've learned so much with sci-hub and i would've been 100x more ignorant and stupid if i lacked access to the full research papers.