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Yes, surely they would have told you had they lost. Instead, silence and a change in spending habits. I don't know here that "not easily verifiable" is deliber
by Syzygies 4y ago
Yes, surely they would have told you had they lost. Instead, silence and a change in spending habits.
I don't know here that "not easily verifiable" is deliberate, but it could be.
In the case of the Fields Medalist, one can read in major publications that they engaged a PR firm. Those articles don't specifically spell out sanitizing the web. If one already knows every detail of the event in question (in my case, confirmation includes overhearing him express concerns about a wrongful death lawsuit), an internet search finds many accounts relaying a cover story, and a single forum comment that correctly describes the event. That comment was apparently beyond the PR firm's reach.
- elefanten 4y agoWhat about web archiving services? Do these sanitizing PR maneuvers take those down as well? That’d be an alarming revelation to me.
- rnk 4y agoSo who is the fields medalist? Interestingly a Google search didn't find that. I'm guessing they were somehow at fault or were drinking. I'm sure if I ever had a car accident where I hurt someone or I was drunk or something, I'd be ashamed, horrified and probably not want anyone to know. But because I'm a nobody, nobody would care. If I was the greatest engineer ever it might be on everything written about me in the future, which would be really horrible in a way. But if this person did something dangerous it shouldn't necessarily remain a secret. The problem with these things is powerful people can block discussion of them by threatening lawsuits.