Streisand effect
noun/ˈstɹaɪ.sænd əˌfɛkt/US
Etymology
Coined by Mike Masnick in 2005, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.
Definitions
A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more…
A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination.
- But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect!
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for Streisand effect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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