Copyfraudster censors investigation of implausible covid gadget

When a US law is used to censor Indian scientific reporting.

The internet is full of garbage, some of it dangerous, some of it odious, much of it illegal. It’s hard to get garbage removed — I’ve basically given up on going after commercial pirate editions of my short stories on Amazon:

https://amazon.com/After-Siege-Cory-Doctorow/dp/1515186997

(Though I wish Google would stop ranking these stupid rip-off pirate editions higher than the free online copies or my commercial short story collections):

http://infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/after-the-siege.html

https://craphound.com/category/overclocked/

As bad as the internet’s garbage problem is, the traditional solution — “Notice and Takedown” where you send an email to a webhost claiming some kind of badness and they automatically nuke whatever you’re complaining about — is far worse.

That’s because Notice and Takedown is so easy to abuse, which means that if you’re a purveyor of internet garbage, you can use it to shut down your critics.

Take the “Shycocan” (Scalene Hypercharge Corona Canon) — a gadget that purports to be able to “attenuate” and “disable” “up to 99.9%…