Both are attempting to hide things from their publics. Trafigura wanted to silence the papers about dumping toxic waste, then silence the papers from reporting that members of parliament were concerned about their use of the courts to silence comments (super-injunctions stop papers even telling you that they've been injuncted, so the story doesn't exist).
This Institution has allegedly, apparently, according to student bloggers, banned the students' union newspaper from discussing the sackings and restructuring - as though they won't see the local papers, TV coverage etc. So much for 'student-centred' learning, and valuing students' opinions. Great PR too: 'shut up or we'll do you' doesn't do the institution's reputation much good, especially when they go around proclaiming how important students' voices are…
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Indeed, I also see the resemblence between the Institution and a dictatorship, if I do a piece in the paper in Morse Code then I'll expect they'll still find out and a white van will visit me and a couple of masked thugs.
That did make me laugh, DD.
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