1.) School girl in Scotland starts blog about quality of school dinners
2.) Blog gets reasonable readership
3.) Charitable donations to Mary's Meals trickle in
4.) Council issues order to stop girl taking photos of school dinners — the council statement is here, but I would not be surprised if it was modified soon...
5.) Order to stop picked up across the press (e.g. the Telegraph)
6.) Blog gets immense readership — far more people are now aware of the issue than if the council had done nothing
7.) Charitable donations to Mary's Meals flood in — many thousands of pounds in the space of a few hours
8.) Council changes its mind, saying it "will not allow censorship of anyone in Argyll & Bute."
BBC coverage here.
Wikipedia article on the Streisand effect here.
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