Submission + - Appin's global censorship campaign to stop you from reading these docs (muckrock.com) 1
v3rgEz writes: Founded in 2003, Appin has been described as a cybersecurity company and an educational consulting firm. Appin was also, according to Reuters reporting and extensive marketing materials, a prolific “hacking for hire” service, stealing information from politicians and militaries as well as businesses and even unfaithful spouses.
Legal letters, being sent to newsrooms and organizations around the world, are trying to remove that story from the internet — and are often succeeding. Now, MuckRock, Techdirt and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are pushing back, helping to ensure the materials stays available. As Masnick at Techdirt notes, "This kind of censorial bullying may work on other publications, but Techdirt believes that (1) important stories, especially around surveillance and hacking, deserve to be read and (2) it’s vitally important to call it out publicly when operations like Appin seek to silence reporting, especially when it’s done through abusing the legal process to silence and intimidate journalists and news organizations."
Legal letters, being sent to newsrooms and organizations around the world, are trying to remove that story from the internet — and are often succeeding. Now, MuckRock, Techdirt and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are pushing back, helping to ensure the materials stays available. As Masnick at Techdirt notes, "This kind of censorial bullying may work on other publications, but Techdirt believes that (1) important stories, especially around surveillance and hacking, deserve to be read and (2) it’s vitally important to call it out publicly when operations like Appin seek to silence reporting, especially when it’s done through abusing the legal process to silence and intimidate journalists and news organizations."
