So, yes, I will never post anything on SSRN ever again. I will probably work in the coming days to take down everything I have there. Also, SSRN (really, Elsevier) can go f*ck themselves. I will do my best to never, ever publish anything in any publication that is associated with Elsevier.
not sure if everyone can access this, but I just learned about some dramatic changes to SSRN from Steve Bainbridge's Substack. This is really bad; SSRN has been how I keep up with scholarship in my field from a variety of researchers
www.stephenbainbridge.com/p/the-social...
Significant and unwelcome changes to what had been legal academia's major open source scholarly repository and notice system
