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by DoItToMe81 1053 days ago
It's not relevant at all. What is, is that she has been founding and leading figure behind the largest e-library and probably the biggest contributor to the anti-copyright movement by that alone.

Support of Putin and Stalin are among a slim majority in Russia, too. You cannot denigrate somebody's achievements because you disagree with what they have to say outside of them. If you want to do that, you may as well deny James Watson's contributions to DNA science.

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> You cannot denigrate somebody's achievements because you disagree with what they have to say outside of them.

With that logic you can't denigrate a scientist with other achievements just because they also practiced Eugenics.

...You can, and should be able to. Detestable views SHOULD impact you negatively in life.