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I think we are all in violent agreement - SciHub is an excellent example of a civic dataset, and frankly a great "cause celebre" for the idea of defending / funding / supoorting civic datasets.

As for having time to lobby for change, I only have optimism to fall back on. But we should try anyway.

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I think we could all do more to counter and neutralise disinformation.

There was a disgraceful episode where th City Of London police allowed themselves be mobilised as useful idiots at the behest of Elsevier etc, against SciHub, spreading factually misleading information. I discussed this with several leading security researchers who all recognised it as cheap politicisation of fake-security news and fearmongering.

So it follows that the most sensible political policies/processes that could stand a chance of keeping Sci-hub from burning down are also tied to policies/processes that could stand a chance of keeping the police from being mobilized as useful idiots at the behest of any corporation big enough (whatever those processes are).

It may very well be the case that law enforcement overreach and corruption is gnawing at the very pillars of civilization.

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