Well, this story moves fast.
What that means is that, at least for now, our YouTube channel is back (Back! BACK!), minus the 13 videos complained about by the BBC on copyright grounds. The situation is once again that Corporation has 14 business days to file a formal court challenge, and unless it does so the channel will be reinstated in full.
Meanwhile, here’s how the Streisand Effect works.
Even in the summer news drought, and despite the intervention of the longest-serving and most recent former First Minister, the Daily Record, the Guardian, the Times, the Daily Mail and the Express are all still turning a blind eye so far, as are all the outraged pundits and commentators of the Scottish press who raised merry hand-wringing hell about the entirely imaginary “silencing” of Stephen Daisley and the “intimidation” of David Torrance and all the rest, in the name of the sacred right of free speech.
But this story’s got a wee while to run yet, so maybe they’re just waiting for the right moment to deliver their red-hot takes.
