<story><title>Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case</title><url>https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&amp;gt; Ok, so that&amp;#x27;s dangerous enough to suspend, but accounts of literal tyrants and wannabe dictators are just fine?&lt;p&gt;Tough. That&amp;#x27;s Twitter (and any other platform) [0]. They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &amp;#x27;Big Tech&amp;#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms and the &amp;#x27;problem&amp;#x27; they tried to remove is still there.&lt;p&gt;Instead of using PayPal, they&amp;#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop. Sure, they can blacklist the address, they&amp;#x27;ll just create a thousand more wallet addresses.&lt;p&gt;These bans are becoming pointless. If not, making it even worse.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.coindesk.com&amp;#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.coindesk.com&amp;#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-pa...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ThrustVectoring</author><text>&amp;gt; Instead of using PayPal, they&amp;#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop&lt;p&gt;If you have a technologically sophisticated user base who is on board with cryptocurrency, you&amp;#x27;ll only lose 90% of your payments switching from credit cards to cryptocurrency.&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t minimize the damage that these bans and actions do merely because there is, in principle, a way to route around the damage. It&amp;#x27;s still plenty enough to kill off businesses, and anything with network effects that wants to be a platform will end up being stunted before it can take off.</text></comment>
<story><title>Twitter suspends Sci-Hub account amid Indian court case</title><url>https://twitter.com/verge/status/1347597998155591680</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rvz</author><text>&amp;gt; Ok, so that&amp;#x27;s dangerous enough to suspend, but accounts of literal tyrants and wannabe dictators are just fine?&lt;p&gt;Tough. That&amp;#x27;s Twitter (and any other platform) [0]. They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.&lt;p&gt;But that&amp;#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &amp;#x27;Big Tech&amp;#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms and the &amp;#x27;problem&amp;#x27; they tried to remove is still there.&lt;p&gt;Instead of using PayPal, they&amp;#x27;ll just send Bitcoin to them instead which that is harder to stop. Sure, they can blacklist the address, they&amp;#x27;ll just create a thousand more wallet addresses.&lt;p&gt;These bans are becoming pointless. If not, making it even worse.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.coindesk.com&amp;#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-paper-pirate-takes-bitcoin-donations&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.coindesk.com&amp;#x2F;blackballed-by-paypal-scientific-pa...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>FeepingCreature</author><text>&amp;gt; They are with in their right to suspend who ever they want.&lt;p&gt;I realize this is heresy, but maybe they should not be?&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; But that&amp;#x27;s not the actual issue, the real issue is coordinated and targeted bans from &amp;#x27;Big Tech&amp;#x27;. These bans will always result in users using alternative platforms&lt;p&gt;Good. Please continue the coordinated and targeted bans. Compared to a Twitter that can&amp;#x27;t ban people, a diverse ecosystem of alternative services is a usable second place.</text></comment>