I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. You’re not wrong. Sci-Hub focuses on academic journal articles, which are a pretty novel phenomenon. The first journal was created in the 17th century, and journals didn’t become the primary medium for publications until well into the 19th century. I wouldn’t say academia is “biased” per se, but it’s true that the academic publishing business is heavily dominated by western companies.
I think both statements are true - not all knowledge is recorded by academia, and academia is heavily western biased.
What I suspect is that the down-votes are because the first user was using hyperbole to make a positive comment about our ability to archive these documents and their value. The response points out something that is evident - obviously academic papers do not hold all human knowledge - and shifts the conversation into a not so casual topic of western biases. This sudden shift of the conversation from friendly-casual to geopolitical with little motivation can make some users upset.
OR, as the other person suggested, maybe the mention of ‘western bias’ is enough to trigger some.
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
So about $800 in HDDs. Steep but reasonable for all the knowledge man has acquired so far.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 5 days ago
All of human knowledge is not encoded into academia.
Academia is heavily western biased.
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I don’t understand why you’re getting downvoted. You’re not wrong. Sci-Hub focuses on academic journal articles, which are a pretty novel phenomenon. The first journal was created in the 17th century, and journals didn’t become the primary medium for publications until well into the 19th century. I wouldn’t say academia is “biased” per se, but it’s true that the academic publishing business is heavily dominated by western companies.
SpicyAnt@mander.xyz 4 days ago
I think both statements are true - not all knowledge is recorded by academia, and academia is heavily western biased.
What I suspect is that the down-votes are because the first user was using hyperbole to make a positive comment about our ability to archive these documents and their value. The response points out something that is evident - obviously academic papers do not hold all human knowledge - and shifts the conversation into a not so casual topic of western biases. This sudden shift of the conversation from friendly-casual to geopolitical with little motivation can make some users upset.
OR, as the other person suggested, maybe the mention of ‘western bias’ is enough to trigger some.
9bananas@feddit.org 4 days ago
the downvotes are due to the bullshit “bias” claim.
let’s you know they’re a tankie…
redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 days ago
Then get digitizing. We have unicode and AI text extraction.
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus 4 days ago
Not every human knowledge is written ;)