How the EFF, Techdirt, MuckRock, and DDoSecrets are pushing back against legal threats aiming to censor reports on Appin's alleged hacker-for-hire past
A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight the legal threats aimed at making reports of one Indian company's hacker-for-hire past disappear.
Wired Andy Greenberg
Related Coverage
- Sorry Appin, We're Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters Techdirt · Mike Masnick
- The Association of Appin Training Centers is waging a global censorship campaign to stop you from reading these documents MuckRock · Michael Morisy
- There are quite a few articles and posts about the attempts of a dodgy Indian hack-for-hire firm called Appin Technologies to censor the journalism being done on it's activities. — On Techdirt — Sorry Appin, We're Not Taking Down Our Article About Your Attempts To Silence Reporters … @jeff@honeytree.social · Jeff Brown
- We fully expect to receive a takedown demand for this story. We also think the stakes of this anti-censorship battle are too high not to publish it anyway. — https://www.wired.com/... @agreenberg@infosec.exchange · Andy Greenberg
- I gotta say, after months of relentless misbehavior by Appin attacking journalists seemingly unanswered, this effort by courageous journalists like @mmasnick and @agreenberg and groups like @eff is giving me real “the Ents are going to war” chills. — https://www.techdirt.com/... https://www.wired.com/... @DaveMWilburn@infosec.exchange
- A collection of people with direct and indirect links to the Indian firm Appin Technology have used legal threats to erase reporting on its alleged hacker-for-hire past. Now, a group of anti-censorship voices is working to make that strategy backfire. — https://www.wired.com/... @agreenberg@infosec.exchange · Andy Greenberg
- A startup allegedly ‘hacked the world’, then came censorship, and now backlash Hacker News
Discussion
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@mmasnick@mastodon.social
Mike Masnick
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So, a couple months back we wrote about how Appin, an Indian company, had forced Reuters to remove an article that presented evidence of Appin's connections to “hack for hire” operations. Appin demanded we remove it. We will not do so. — https://www.techdirt.com/...
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@freedomofpress
@freedomofpress
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Appin may have succeeded in getting a few stories taken down, but the “Streisand Effect” is beginning to take hold. Anyone considering similar censorial antics should take note: They inevitably backfire by generating far more bad press than they prevent. https://www.wired.com/...
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@taylorbuley
Tay
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Now I understand a little more about why Reuters was honoring the legal ruling in India and yanked the story globally https://www.wired.com/...
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@amys_here
@amys_here
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👀 “demanded that Reuters take down its article based on a blockbuster investigation into Appin Technology detailed its alleged targeting &spying on opposition leaders, corporate competitors, lawyers, &wealthy individuals on behalf of customers worldwide” https://www.wired.com/...
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@nsnadeemsarwar
@nsnadeemsarwar
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Imagine the kind of power behind a pay-to-hack Indian firm named Appin, which got the likes of Reuters & Internet Archive to pull their story on this firm. Some secrets are apparently too sensitive for the weapon to be laid bare. Won't be surprised if guv dealings are exposed.