An excellently written article. I think they really hit the nail on the head here about how censorship backfires. Seeing someone lay the blame on our news organ

An excellently written article. I think they really hit the nail on the head here about how censorship backfires. Seeing someone lay the blame on our news organizations instead of some "Russian conspiracy theory" is catharsis. Regrettably, I think the lesson learned here won't be that censorship backfires. I think the lesson will be, "do it better next time". You see, the story still needs to disappear. But instead of making the story disappear in a very public manner, just shadowban it. Throw a few fake likes and retweets on the post to comfort the user, but display it to no one. And if anyone asks, deny everything. This technique is magnificent. The Streisand Effect can't happen if the request to remove the material isn't made public, and the users are duped into believing the material is still there.