WAS THE GOV’T BEHIND A MAJOR UNIVERSITY’S DEMAND THAT A PROFESSOR TAKE DOWN A BLOG POST CRITICAL OF THE NSA?

A professor at Johns Hopkins University wrote a blog post critical some of the NSA’s alleged practices and was later told by the institution to remove the post from its servers.

The professor heard someone at the university’s Applied Physics Laboratory might have made the initial complaint, which lead some to note the connection between some of APL’s projects and the NSA. 

After the Internet lambasted the university for “censorship,” it quickly reevaluated the situation, noticed it misunderstood a few items and reinstated the professor’s blog.

Some still wonder if its initial decision to remove it though came from the government; the university denies this.

A prominent university quickly reinstated and apologized to a professor after requiring him to remove his blog post about the NSA, prompting some to wonder if the spy agency itself was behind its removal.

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