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Cloudflare Terminates Service To Sci-Hub Domain Names (torrentfreak.com)
While Sci-Hub is praised by thousands of researchers and academics around the world, copyright holders are doing everything in their power to wipe the site from the web. From a report: Last weekend another problem appeared for Sci-Hub. This time American Chemical Society (ACS) went after CDN provider Cloudflare, which informed the site that a court order requires the company to disconnect several domain names. "Cloudflare has received the attached court order, Case 1:17-cv-OO726-LMB-JFA," the company writes. "Cloudflare will terminate your service for the following domains sci-hub.la, sci-hub.tv, and sci-hub.tw by disabling our authoritative DNS in 24 hours." According to Sci-Hub's operator, losing access to Cloudflare is not "critical," but it may "cause a short pause in website operation."
This isn't about getting into the censorship business. It's about obeying a court order. They do not have the option of demurring.
Back when Cloufare nuked The Daily Stormer the CEO said it was important it didn't set a precedent
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And in an internal company e-mail obtained by Gizmodo, Prince acknowledged that the decision was exactly as arbitrary as it seemed.
"My rationale for making this decision was simple: the people behind the Daily Stormer are assholes and I'd had enough," Prince wrote. "Let me be clear: this was an arbitrary decision."
Prince wrote that he "woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the Internet. It was a decision I could make because I'm the CEO of a major Internet infrastructure company."
In the same e-mail, Prince argued that it is "dangerous" for that kind of power to be concentrated in any one person's hands.
"It's important that what we did today not set a precedent," Prince added. "The right answer is for us to be consistently content neutral."
In a company blog post that appeared later on Wednesday, Prince argued that the Internet needed a better system for determining which content should be taken down-one that gives publishers a right to due process and doesn't put power over those decisions in the hands of a few CEOs like Prince.
But, of course, the decision is likely to set a precedent even if Prince hopes it's a one-time occurrence. Cloudflare has helped to establish an industry-wide norm that some content is too offensive to be hosted by any mainstream technology company. In the future, the public will suspect that if an infrastructure provides service to a site, it's because they don't actually find it objectionable. This may not be a genie Cloudflare can stuff back into the bottle.
And now Cloudfare have let the genie out of the bottle it seems like any site can be nuked, either because the CEO wakes up deciding to do it or due to a court order.
So much for the Internet 'interpreting censorship as damage and routing around it'.
Andrew Anglin is an asshole but he's also a kind of canary in the coalmine because assholes are the first ones to see their sites disappear when censorship starts. Unfortunately they're unlikely to be the last.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).
Illustrating the dangers of storing your stuff in someone elses centralized cloud ..
... as they'd go to jail if they didn't.
Technically, companies can't go to jail, but they could experience fines and other actions that would put them out of business.
Kind of missing the point, it shouldn't even BE possible. A _US_ court does not have carte Blanche over the world. I realize that is a hard thing for Americans to understand.
This is just the beginning for Cloudflare's demise. They became a target during the US elections for backing some of the very sites SJW's find repulsive. As the US starts to ramp up their war^Welection machine again, expect more fallout.
They aren't region blocking, but outright banning.
Well, I for one did not know Sci-Hub. I don't read a lot of paywalled scientific articles (when I do, the costs can be expensed to a client usually) but knowing that this is available could be tempting in the future occasionally... Not because of the money of course, but the convenience of access...
I think you don't understand. If someone points a loaded gun at your head and you're convinced they're really going to pull the trigger unless you obey them, then it doesn't matter if you think the gun wielder should be able to do that. He's doing it.
US courts have absolute power over anyone and everyone that they're able to coerce. If cloudflare is vulnerable to US attack, then that's the problem they have. If they weren't vulnerable, then we'd be reading about how they told the court to go fuck itself.
If you have a website that you want to shield from court interference, then you should be looking into the next generation of tech. Maybe sci-hub needs an eepsite or .onion domain.
"Believe me!" -- Donald Trump
But they do have legal jurisdiction over a U.S. company like Cloudflare. I realize that is a hard thing for the oblivious to understand.
Cloudflare is so absurdly ubiquitous that they can and do routinely degrade service across the web to line their own pockets. PIA addresses have been blocked by Cloudflare, meaning users now have to exempt Cloudflare ranges and torpedo their privacy or simply give up on the 90% of sites out there that use it in some way. When asked about this, Cloudflare basically said "though cookies," and refused to unblock the endpoints.
Fuck Cloudflare with a twelve-foot iron rod.
>>If you'd bothered to read the summary, no, they don't censor sites voluntarily.
Sure they do. Google Daily Stormer.
Why is all the good stuff already modded 5, when I have mod points?
Just tried the .onion address, it's not working.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
Community college used to be cheap. It is still cheap if you have a nice engineering job but not if you have a McJob and are working for minimum wage. Here is California (yeah, The People's Republic of Kalifornia) community college costs $52/unit. Per unit! That means that a full load of classes will run you $600 per semester! Books, parking, bus passes, etc will cost about that again. So now it is $1,000 per semester. That is not cheap. It is fucking insane.
Apply for scholarships while holding down a job or two and carrying a full load (or more) of classes is a luxury that some don't have time for. Because people want to sleep and eat and even rest at times. Not all humans are diabolical machines like Archangel Michael.
Only I can judge you.
$1,200
Only I can judge you.
Two semesters comes to $2000 a year. Most families can afford that. If you live at home with parents then it's not bad. The problem comes from those who don't live at at home, they have to also pay rent, get a minimum wage job, work less than full time because they're going to school, pay for transportation, etc. If you're the sole breadwinner then it's rough, but then so is everything at that point, including getting a car, holding down a job with only a high school education, and so on.
Access from the IP address is working fine.
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Show me the community college with the massive library and a subscription to all the top journals.
"I'm so moist I'm sticking to the leather." -Kermit the Frog on The Late Late Show
Most families can't afford that, not with rent going up (home ownership is at low levels compared to recent history). When I went to school it was $12 per unit, books were still expensive but closer to $60 each so $300 for 4 classes worth of books, sometimes more, sometimes less. Thus about $450 per semester. It was so cheap I'd take a PE class or two just because... why not.
Community College used to be free in CA when education was seen as an investment in the future of the state rather than a wealth extraction method from the poor and working classes. CA needs to roll back to the way it used to be or we're going to continue on a downward spiral which benefits only the wealthy and obscenely wealthy.
Only I can judge you.