UK is using "D Notice", aka DSMA-Notice for official request to news editors, not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
Compliance with the D Notice is "voluntary". If the publication does not voluntarily comply with the D Notice, the publication may have its hard drives smashed by the authorities, and the owner(s) may suffer financial problems. The Guardian ran into this. After a change of ownership, The Guardian "voluntarily" complies with D Notice.
Nice piece. Just one clarification. Sensible Medicine is a very new Substack of which Prasad is one of a number of contributors. It is not bad, but much better is the Vinay Prasad personal Substack, https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/. Better content, with some of it copied later onto Sensible Medicine anyway.
UK is using "D Notice", aka DSMA-Notice for official request to news editors, not to publish or broadcast items on specified subjects for reasons of national security.
Compliance with the D Notice is "voluntary". If the publication does not voluntarily comply with the D Notice, the publication may have its hard drives smashed by the authorities, and the owner(s) may suffer financial problems. The Guardian ran into this. After a change of ownership, The Guardian "voluntarily" complies with D Notice.
Nice piece. Just one clarification. Sensible Medicine is a very new Substack of which Prasad is one of a number of contributors. It is not bad, but much better is the Vinay Prasad personal Substack, https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/. Better content, with some of it copied later onto Sensible Medicine anyway.