"An Indian venture capitalist is mounting an international legal campaign to pressure major media outlets to remove his name from articles or take down the stories altogether, Confider has learned.

In a move that has press freedom campaigners troubled, Rajat Khare, co-founder of Appin, an India-based tech company, has used a variety of law firms in a number of different jurisdictions to threaten these U.S., British, Swiss, Indian, and French-language media organizations."

His name is Rajat Khare. Streisand effect activate !

Sounds like someone new is going to find out about the Striesand effect. I didn't glance at the story the first time it came around but I made sure to read it this time

Archive link for the unregistered: https://archive.ph/KYlZw

There was a Mastodon post yesterday from Reuters about Rajat Khare, this post contained the article OP posted and a link to an even more interesting article about the Indian Hacking for hire that this scumbag is responsible for:

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

I was watching the swiss show as it was nuked out of YouTube 😂 had to wait hours for the reUp xD was a great show (swiss satiric late show called deville, sadly last season has aired already, but there will be a satire successor)