The idiots at AP have evidently never heard of “The Streisand effect” - the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide, remove, or censor a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely, usually facilitated by the Internet. (as Wikipedia defines it)
The Confederate flag issue is a corollary to the Streisand effect...
Was that where they didn’t want anyone taking pictures of their wedding so they wrote “f you” on the beach, or is the beach thing something else?