what a fucking idiot. don't MPs get any kind of media training? the move would be to make one of those drafted non-committal non-apologies with some almost magnanimous pat on the back to the researcher as a press release and then ignore it.
reaching out to their advisor, applying behind the scenes pressure to remove their name, and make public accusations about "data breaches" or "privacy concerns" is just going to keep this shit in the news cycle, get people interested in a story that started as a historical fact and has blossomed into a clusterfuck. literally, the one doing damage to her reputation and creating a safety concern is her trying to retaliate about this.
honestly, the ted talk could have become a not-widely circulated lefty meme like "check it out, the same families of assholes are still in charge lol" but this is like the streisand thing.
I have a sudden urge to look up 6838 Zumirez Drive in Malibu, California on Google maps...
She also said she had a right to be forgotten as she was no longer a public figure.
In authoritarian GYNA it is illegal to talk about public officials after they have resigned their positions
She added that she was not seeking to prevent free speech nor was she suppressing academic research
As part of her correspondence, Sandbach noted her concern that Al Nasir’s research had ignored the legal position of British women in the 19th century.
What
Some people can only learn about the Streisand Effect the hard way
