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Here’s a recent example of extraterritorial gag orders targeting news outlets, which would necessarily impinge our ability to read between the lies/lines: http
by aspenmayer 3y ago
Here’s a recent example of extraterritorial gag orders targeting news outlets, which would necessarily impinge our ability to read between the lies/lines:
https://www.404media.co/reuters-takes-down-blockbuster-hacker-for-hire-investigation-after-indian-court-order/ https://www.404media.co/reuters-takes-down-blockbuster-hacke...
I’m “posting too fast” or I’d submit it to HN myself - feel free to do so, dear reader, as it belongs on HN.
> “Reuters has temporarily removed the article ‘How an Indian startup hacked the world’ to comply with a preliminary court order issued on Dec. 4, 2023, in a district court in New Delhi, India. Reuters stands by its reporting and plans to appeal the decision,” the editor’s note reads. An archive of the story, hosted on the Wayback Machine, is available here.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164611/https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-hackers-appin/ https://web.archive.org/web/20231116164611/https://www.reute...
- aspenmayer 3y agoIt’s already added as of a few days ago; Algolia seems to have been down around the same time HN was down - last few hours have been spotty but seems back up now.
- singlepaynews 3y agoI see your point; can't the reporting of the gag order itself can also be included in the 'news' training set? I keep coming back to an infinite necessity of news/reporting; definitely read more than just news, but nothing in this thread has pointed me to "stop reading news", as the title directs.
- aspenmayer 3y agoI agree, I don’t agree with the thesis of the OP either