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Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking entrepreneur -- because he got a court in that country to say so. (mastodon.world)

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[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 49 points 10 months ago

stop bowing down to fascism everybody

[-] Corgana@startrek.website 63 points 10 months ago

My gut says that this is probably not appeasement but a subtle rebellious act. They could have edited the article or geoblocked it just in India, but instead they removed it altogether, adding to the story and ultimatley bringing even more attention to it.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 5 points 10 months ago

I'd like to believe this is canny use of the Streisand Effect, but in a company as big as Reuters it's more likely to be lawyers.

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