Asking People to Take Down Articles and Videos Only Makes These More Popular and "Viral"
Louis Rossmann no longer publishes as many videos as he used to. He uploads about one video per day. But they still have impact.
This year's most "popular" video and the only one to exceed a million views (since 5 months ago) is "BwE: Enjoy and learn from the master ππΊπ²π₯".
Basically a company which did something really terrible tried to abuse the system to silence the critic. Not only did that not go well; it backfired.
This reminds us of what happened to legal team of the Serial Strangler from Microsoft and Garrett [1, 2] with their anti-metoo agenda. The harder they try and the more that they fling at us, the more it backfires. British authorities are particularly interested in what they did to my wife.
There's a lesson here. If you do something bad, one of the worst things you can possibly do it try to silence those who speak about it. That approach does not work. In the coming years we'll show many examples (not limited to the above) of silencing attempts backfiring very badly. β