It's a pretty hard decision: on one hand you can let it continue and potentially make take some reputation damage, on the other hand you can try to silence but

It's a pretty hard decision: on one hand you can let it continue and potentially make take some reputation damage, on the other hand you can try to silence but there's a chance that the Streisand effect will make the situation worse. Hard call to make really, as by it's very nature we don't know how often a silencing situation triggers the effect.