Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state.
Also the US has the highest prison population per capita.
If it quacks like a duck...
Also the US has the highest prison population per capita.
If it quacks like a duck...
That's true, but the more horrifying fact is that it has the highest prison population in absolute numbers: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/uk/06/prisons/html/nn2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera...
No.
It wasn't enforced by the state at all.
I think it's a waste of time as much as anyone else but Sci-hub is clearly against US law. Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"
Sci-hub has nothing to do with US law.
> Just because you disagree with the value of a law enforcement action doesn't mean you are living in a "police state"
Uncritically buying one's national government's claim to global jurisdiction, justifying "law enforcement actions" against foreign citizens in foreign lands in the frigging first place, on the other hand...
That seems to indicate some kind of successful indoctrination into a pro-police-state mindset.