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   Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:06:18 JST Mike Masnick ✅

   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/2024/02/01/sorry-appin-were-not-taking-down-our-article-about-your-attempts-to-silence-reporters/

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:06:43 JST Mike Masnick ✅

     in reply to

     • Electronic Frontier Foundation
     • MuckRock
     • David Greene (no not that one)

     Thanks to @eff and @davidgreene for sending a letter on our behalf, along with @muckrock, who has written about this separately. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2024/feb/01/global-censorship-appin-reuters/

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 03:07:10 JST Mike Masnick ✅

     in reply to

     • WIRED :press:
     • Andy Greenberg

     In addition, @agreenberg has written a thorough piece for @WIRED about it as well: https://www.wired.com/story/appin-training-centers-lawsuits-censorship/

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     Chris (kenjiabe09@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Feb-2024 11:00:00 JST Chris

     in reply to

     @mmasnick Hey mike, do you have a Washington Post subscription I could use just for now? I think the messaging would be very helpful for me. Thank you