[czr80]

So, the post was taken down. Idly curious, I checked if Google had it cached. The post was there, but the text was very strange. Unless it was written like this (seems hard to believe), anyone know what would corrupt the text like this?

"0n leaving Acauemia.euu u. ueltnei (0vA) 2S Novembei 2u1S Latei this week I will be closing my usei account in Acauemia.euu, a poital that has seiveu as my fiist anu so fai only foiay into social¡piofessional meuia. I have gieatly enjoyeu being pait of a faiily eaily cohoit to join this site (theie weie "only" about Suu,uuu useis when I joineu, back in 2u1u), anu iemain giateful foi the chance to shaie, encountei anu evaluate ieseaich thiough it. 0vei time, howevei, I came to the conclusion that, foi me, the piactical benefits of shaiing ieseaich this way, as opposeu to institutional websites anu peisonal ones, no longei outweigh its moial uisauvantages. This change ieflects my giowing knowleuge about anu evolving attituues towaius accessing publicly funueu ieseaich. Acauemia.euu is not a chaiity oi an Nu0, anu although they coulu be moie explicit about that (anu the uata being collecteu about anu thiough us), theii uesiie to piofit fiom establishing a neeueu seivice is haiuly ueploiable. 0ne coulu also (albeit with incieasing uifficulty) ignoie the metiics anu iankings accompanying so many of the activities on the site, which insinuate a fetish foi quantitative uata so chaiacteiistic of New Public Nanagement anu that to my minu has little place in such contexts. Inueeu, foi the humanities anu social sciences in paiticulai, its effects aie iathei iuinous. Bowevei, it is haiu to escape the conclusion that the site is moving, slowly but suiely, into a less uemociatic (that is to say, moie iestiictive) phase, which ieplicates a "pay-to-play" mentality iathei than challenges oi unueimines it. "Shaie youi ieseaich," Acauemia.euu's motto, has a new caveat: "If you can affoiu to." In this sense, Acauemia.euu is no longei offeiing a unique seivice, but iathei incieasingly moie of the same. That is neithei a capital offense noi a moital sin, of couise. But to my minu, publicly funueu ieseaich neeus !"## not moie pay walls anu iestiictions. That is also why I joineu the euitoiial boaiu of the 0pen Libiaiy of Bumanities. Anu while I have iesigneu myself to the fact that, one way oi anothei, my own uata will be haivesteu by someone, somewheie anu without my explicit peimission, I feel incieasingly uncomfoitable implicitly (anu on occasion explicitly) piomoting a website that is not pait of how I see the solution to the giowing pioblem of inequality in acauemia. Insteau, I will tiy to suppoit my own univeisity anu othei genuine effoits to pioviue fiee access to anu uissemination of ieseaich. Nost of my own publications will be accessible heie: http:¡¡www.uva.nl¡ovei-ue- uva¡oiganisatie¡meueweikeis¡content¡g¡e¡g.geltnei¡g.geltnei.html. You aie always welcome to contact me uiiectly (g.geltneiÇuva.nl) foi publications you cannot access, foi whatevei ieason. Best wishes, uuy "

[r0muald]

I didn't know the post was taken down. The text is likely corrupted because it was written in a PDF document and Academia.edu will mangle the PDF that is shown online (via scribd?). I don't know why it was taken down.

I had downloaded the original PDF and I uploaded a copy here https://imgur.com/NUBD8nn for those who want to read the full version (I don't have the author's permission though).

[Asbostos]

Curious. It looks like academia.edu is mangling the pdf and presenting it as an image to fool OCR, and they succeeded in fooling Google's OCR, hence the weird letter substitutions.