Comment by remus

Comment by remus 19 hours ago

From the lawyer's point of view I guess you're making a risk judgement, presumably they thought the chance of getting a successful court order outweighed the potential increase in press of they happened to fail.

rsynnott 18 hours ago

Even if they got a court order (they did get partial bars on publicity AIUI) it would _still make the problem for Facebook worse_, tho.

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remus 14 hours ago

I'm not so sure. I think there is some selection bias happening, so it's easy to say "Streisand effect!" When it makes the headlines but that ignores the times it doesn't make the headlines.

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- 3np an hour ago
  
  Yeah. How many were silenced prior to this?
  
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