British police arrest man over offensive Captain Moore tweet, giving it a vast international audience

[Joey_Chickenkin]

This isn’t really the Streisand effect though is it?

The Police in this istance haven’t tried to hide the tweet or it’s contents and the information that has been widely spread isn’t simply the tweet but that if you say things like this on the internet, you might get a visit from the police.

A message that they do want to be more widely spread.

[beschizza]

@anon50609448

Like if a kid insults another kid in class and the teacher calls it out, tells them it was wrong, and gets the class involved in a discussion of why it was wrong. The teacher isn’t foolishly drawing even more attention to the hurtful words, they are correctly calling attention to them for the purpose of saying they are wrong.

The difference is the teacher has control over the context of the lesson.