The City Council removes a video featuring the president of Som Habitatge, and the tenants make it go viral again.
The clip showed Núria Garrido comparing having tenants with having a child.
BarcelonaAnother example of the Streisand Effect on social media. On Tuesday, Catalunya Ràdio broadcast a face-to-face interview between the spokesperson for the Village Union, Carme Arcarazo, and the president of the landlords' association Som Habitatge, Núria Garrido. A clip they made for social media went viral. Garrido was seen, among other things, comparing having tenants to having a child, because many obligations would arise. "You find out if they separate, if they get divorced, if their partner dies, if they lose their job, if they have a leak, if their boiler breaks down..." Her panelist reminded her that when someone charges money for a service, it's normal to expect service in return. However, that interview has disappeared from the official social media channels of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation. The organization confirmed to ARA that it has preemptively removed the content from Twitter and Instagram after receiving a request from Garrido urging them to do so.
Corporation sources assure that this is a provisional measure, pending a legal verdict on whether they are obligated to do so. Meanwhile, the Renters' Union has recovered the video and uploaded it to its social media. ARA has also removed the Union's video from this news story following a request from SOM Vivienda, although can still be seen on the Instagram profile The origin of the conflict is image rights on the part of a commercial media outlet: Catalunya Ràdio does not ask explicit permission from its guests to upload clips to social media, understanding that there is tacit consent from the moment someone agrees to stand in front of the microphone to speak publicly.
In any case, and despite the controversy generated by its deletion, the clip has gone viral again and has garnered more than 2,000 views. I like in just over three hours. One of the video's moments showed Garrido impersonating Arcarazo and saying, "Is he jealous? Is the problem jealousy? Is the problem jealousy? What's going on here?"