Oh dear Meta, don’t you understand how the digital world works?

Meta, the same company that every few months or years has half-heartedly apologized for its repeated crimes, has had enough of saying sorry, and has now decided to try to silence “Careless People”, by former employee Sarah Wynn-Williams.

In a move straight out of a B-movie, the International Centre for Dispute Resolution has ruled that Wynn-Williams, a high-level employee who worked with CEO Mark Zuckerberg, then-COO Sheryl Sandberg and Joel Kaplan, the company’s current policy chief, cannot promote her book; a textbook example of the Streisand Effect, as defined by Mike Masnick.

Trying to censor a book in the 21st century is a waste of time, and only provokes the public’s interest further. In a hyperconnected world where information spreads at light speed, any attempt to repress a critical narrative is bound to backfire. The book has already been reviewed in The New York Times, and is of course available on Amazon, as well as the website of its publisher, MacMilllan, which has defended its author, while Meta sought to defame her by claiming that she had been fired for incompetence.

Meta’s decision, moreover, cannot be seen as an isolated measure, but as the systematic behavior of a company run by a psychopath by the book, who has decided to stop apologizing, and instead to cover up its…