AFAIC an Armenian scientist integrated Sci-Hub with Libgen, perhaps the one you meant. But the story is a lot more complicated. It's not wrong to say that Libgen is something that Russia did for the world.
> It's not wrong to say that Libgen is something that Russia did for the world.
I think that everyone that helped with that project would be pretty mad if they heard this. It's definitely not Russia that did this, it's people working against Russian censorship that did this.
Also, a lot of the community behind the pirateb4y and 4nnas-archive and the-3ye helped build these projects. The sheer amount of resources that the archivist is contributing is insane by any normal (non-fortune100) standard.
That project has nothing to do with Russian censorship. Libgen has always existed as a way to share scientific and other literature for free, basically supporting communism in such a way.
Russia in attempt to make friends with the West at some point approved the laws to prevent piracy and started to respect foreign intellectual property and copyrights, so projects like libgen were outlawed and forced to hide/ change hosting.
But all the books, videos, games etc sharing websites that were born on a territory of the former USSR has nothing to do with censorship, but economic reality that after switching from communism to capitalism citizens became so piss poor, that couldn’t afford to pay for such things, and their communistic mind still thought, that information has to be distributed for free.
Not gonna answer this ragebait. If you ignore самиздат and the whole censorship of the Sovjet Union, you're either pretty ignorant or a really bad faith argumenter.
As a sidenote: if you walk around the internet, treating everyone as your enemy from the start... it's what you will get in return. Maybe go outside and touch some grass once in a while, because the crusade of yours is not really helping anyone.
I find it amusing how you guys are noticing ethnicity when it suits to point that someone doing good is not ethnically Russian, but doing an opposite when you need to prove that Russians are bad.
Stalin was a Georgian, Khruschev and Brezhnev were from Ukraine, and together their ruled most of USSR history, but it’s Russians to blame.
Elbakyan was born in USSR in a Russian Armenian family, on a territory that is now a separate country- Kazakhstan.
