Gagging orders

[Stanfordian]

In the world of instant worldwide commication via the internet these so called 'gagging orders' that the 'stars' take out
seem to be a total waste of time. All three 'stars' mentioned in the last month or so have been named in other countries. One was even named in the Scottish press but not in England. This all seems to stimulate additional interest in who the personality actually is rather than get the news in the papers for a day or two then it will be yesterday's fish and chip paper.

[vinteuil]

... indeed such things are usually counterproductive - cf the 'Streisand Effect'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

In the recent case, as you say, anyone in Scotland could find out in the press; anyone in England could find out by some simple googling.

Mme v's younger daughter works at the lawyers dealing with this, so I'm saying no more...

[Dave2002]

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely,...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect as per msg 2.

One wonders sometimes whether, now the effect has been observed and documented, it's always an unintended consequence.