Dan Gillmor on Nostr: Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation ...

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.

This is a huge danger to free speech and serious journalism.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul

Reuters deserved praise for its initial investigation. It deserves the opposite now.

(The New Yorker is apparently one of the few publications that hasn't bowed to the pressure.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry