Fighting for Communism in Science: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan - Brown Political Review
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Alexandra Elbakyan is a Kazakhstan-born, Russian-based computer programmer and scientific activist. A supporter of the open science movement and scientific communism, Elbakyan has been referred to as “Science’s Pirate Queen.” In 2011, Elbakyan founded the shadow library Sci-Hub, providing free access to millions of research articles without regard to copyright and paywalls. Today, Sci-Hub receives over 600,000 daily visitors from […]
  • Muad'Dibber
    3•11 months ago

    What an incredibly based and brave person. The work that her and other Russian pirate comrades like the ppl who created libgen are doing, is so extremely important and worthwhile… Literally 80% of the content of the internet could fall away, and if scihub remains, we’d be better off.

    She comments on the media ignoring her too, which shows the hypocrisy of these cultures who claim to be open and love science, but want to keep it locked behind paywalls.

    o7 to our communist data librarian queen.