Saturday, October 2, 2010

Censorship and the Streisand Effect

Be warned if you ever try to have some information removed from public display, you might become a victim of the Streisand Effect, where the act of censoring something unintentionaly causes the information to be widely publicised.

The term originated in 2003 when Barbra Streisand attempted to have a photo which included her beach front home removed from a photographic survey documenting Californian coastal errosion, her suit of the photographer and site host led to widespreed knowledge of the photo and over 400,000 additional site veiws within the month.

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