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I like the general direction of that idea. But honestly, not sure if this should be national with all the political pressure and censorship that could come from that. With how international scientific research is, perhaps the UN or a newly formed international organisation could oversee such journals.

Oh yeah, those price tags are insane. They’re making crazy profits of public money thanks to hiring schemes based on impact factors :/

It will keep returning as long as there is no counter movement. Instead of only trying to stop chat control, we should push in the opposite direction. Propose legislation that enforces stricter privacy rules, forbid commercialization of private data (e.g. criminalize and penalize data brokers) and so on. We need to shift the balance in favor of the people instead of trying to maintain a status quo. A Newtonian approach, every action requires an (equal and) opposite reaction.

Many countries’ funding agencies require open access publications for work based on their funding. However, open access fees are insanely high in some journals (e.g. around $12k for the higher impact factor Nature journals)…

Not really, you need to know (enough of) the content of what you’re citing to make sure that the citation makes sense. The actual info you need to write down for the citation is easily available. How you accessed it is irrelevant.

Be the change you wanna see and organize something? The communities are small though, and the fraction of interested people even smaller, probably good to take into account for the choice of what you want to organize.