Andy GreenbergFeb 1, 2024

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/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship

A Startup Allegedly ‘Hacked the World.’ Then Came the Censorship—and Now the Backlash

A loose coalition of anti-censorship voices is working to highlight reports of one Indian company’s hacker-for-hire past—and the legal threats aimed at making them disappear.

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Show threadAndy Greenberg
That group fighting back includes the @eff, @muckrock and @ddosecrets. Fittingly it also includes @Techdirt, whose founder @mmasnick coined the term "Streisand Effect": when someone's attempt to censor information only brings more attention to it.
Feb 1, 2024 at 5:43pmWeb