“She said, ‘You can’t board the plane unless you delete that tweet,’” Watson said.
Now, thanks to her forcing the guy to delete a random tweet that would have been lost in the sea of tweets, she is going to have multiple news stories written about her, and millions of more people will know who she is.
As the comedian John Oliver observed:
“...the Internet is like quicksand. The more aggressively you fight to remove yourself from it, the deeper you’re going to sink down into it. The case in point is the guy who started all of this.”
(he is speaking of the Spanish man who sued to have himself “forgotten” by google)
“The only thing I know about him, is the only thing he didn’t want me to know.”
Something to remember when some jerk embarrasses you in front of the entire universe. Let it rest rather than attract lots of attention to it. In fact, it often becomes a fitting comment on his stupidity just by hanging there as the last word.