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Dec/09
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Dec/09
19:13 5
BBC slapped with new injunction as Trafigura and Carter Ruck come back for more
It seems waste dumping bastards oil company Trafigura and their libel lawyers Carter Ruck didn’t learn very much from their comprehensive owning at the hands of the blogosphere in October. The New Statesman is reporting that the video ‘Dirty Tricks and Toxic Waste in the Ivory Coast’ has been removed from the BBC’s website after they after legal threats (it was here):
You can view the original report over at Wikileaks or a Newsnight report on the super injunction shitstorm below:
What to Trafigura seek to achieve by attempting vainly to suppress something that is already in the public domain?!
This is Streisand Effect 101.
Hat tip: Iain Dale
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