Streisand effect

Stuffocation

by James Wallman  · 6 Dec 2013  · 296pp  · 82,501 words

site called Ridiculous Pictures of Celine Dion – but merely draws more attention to it, that is now called, in honour of the great entertainer, the Streisand effect. The Prince and the Rabbit-Proof Fence In October 1859, Thomas Austin was excited. Like the rest of the family in the village of Baltonsborough

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. For all their efforts, though, all they did was create much needed media noise for Silent Spring. By doing so, they not only created a Streisand effect, decades before it would be called this. They also helped shine a light on what has turned out to be one of materialism’s darkest

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Journey, the Minimalist Freak, The Minimalists, or any of the hundreds of other anti-materialist websites, they would most likely end up creating their own Streisand effect. FOUR I Love to Count: the 33, 47, 69 and 100 Things of Minimalism A few years ago in Sacramento, California, a slim, tanned, immaculately

Come and Take It: The Gun Printer's Guide to Thinking Free

by Cody Wilson  · 10 Oct 2016  · 246pp  · 70,404 words

if it were a munition, as if it were a bomb or a missile. And I think really this was the first example of the Streisand effect. I don’t know if you guys have heard of this, but Barbra Streisand in 2003 found a photo of her Malibu beach house online

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can’t plan for good luck like that. But if power did step in, it would guarantee the outcome, wouldn’t it? Something like the Streisand effect.” The file was uploaded and ready to share. The link was in a draft email I had prepared to send to Haroon. So, this was

The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom

by Evgeny Morozov  · 16 Nov 2010  · 538pp  · 141,822 words

much along the lines of Sinatra’s song “My Way.” On the Internet, though, Sinatra is out of luck; the buzzword du jour is the “Streisand effect”—the notion that the more you try to get something off the Internet, the more you fuel everyone’s interest in it, thus defeating the

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, Sony Corporation, Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation, and the popular social news site Digg.com are just some of the high-profile victims of the Streisand Effect. Confronting online content they didn’t want to be public, they instinctively fought back—without realizing how such aggression might backfire. Even when some of

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air strike that killed several Reuters news staffers as well as a trove of documents related to the war in Afghanistan. The logic behind the Streisand Effect, however, does not have much to do with the Internet. Throughout history there has hardly been a more effective way to ensure that people talk

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Greek man who in 356 BCE set fire to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, may be the world’s first documented case of the Streisand Effect. Herostratus’s ultimate punishment—that is, in addition to being executed—was for his act to be forgotten, on strict orders from the Ephesean authorities

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be immortalized on his own Wikipedia page). Even though it’s publicity-conscious Hollywood stars, corporations, and activist organizations that are most troubled by the Streisand Effect, authoritarian governments are worried as well. For most of their existence, authoritarian governments believed—and not without good reason—they could control the spread of

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the letters). When the costs of trafficking in information—whether financial or reputational—are too high, there are fewer opportunities to spread it around; the Streisand Effect is not likely to undermine official information flows. But when almost everyone has access to cheap means of self-publishing as well as concealing their

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identity, the Streisand Effect becomes a real threat. It often renders traditional forms of censorship counterproductive. Most political bloggers start salivating at the thought of starving the government’s

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censorship beast by reproducing what the government wants to ban. But it would be wrong to conclude that the Streisand Effect means the demise of information control. Censors can simply switch to other, less obvious, and less intrusive means of minimizing the negative impact of the

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most Western content producers can only dream of. As one of the most knowledgeable people about the Internet in today’s Russia, Rykov understands the Streisand Effect and is thus trying to steer the government away from pure and highly visible Internet censorship and toward softer, propaganda-driven methods of control. Speaking

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/hidden-cat-a-prisoners-death-gives-new-meaning-to-childrens-game/ . Yiannopoulos, Milo. “What is ‘The Streisand Effect’?” Milo Yiannopoulos Blog, Daily Telegraph (London), January 31, 2009. blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/miloyiannopoulos/8248311/What_is_The_Streisand_Effect/. Zhang, J. “Will the Government ‘Serve the People’? The Development of Chinese E-Government.” New

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Distributed-Denial-of-Service attack and Facebook and hyperlinks and Internet companies in Iran modern in Russia in Saudi Arabia and social network(s) and Streisand effect and technological fixes See also Propaganda; Surveillance Censorship Research Center Censorship-circumvention software Central Asia Central Institute for Youth Research Centralization Chadayev, Alexey Chalabi, Ahmed

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Speer, Albert Spin. See also Propaganda; Spinternet Spinternet. See also Spin Sreberny, Annabelle Stalin, Joseph Stanton, Katie Jacobs Stewart, Jon Stork Fountain experiment Streisand, Barbara Streisand Effect Suleymanly, Bashir Sullivan, Andrew Sunstein, Cass Surkov, Vladislav Surveillance and databases and face-recognition and mobile phones modern and obscurity and technological fixes and text

Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest

by Zeynep Tufekci  · 14 May 2017  · 444pp  · 130,646 words

, attempts at censorship can backfire and bring much more attention to the information that was supposed to be suppressed. This even has a name, the Streisand Effect from an incident in 2003, when Barbra Streisand attempted to keep images of her Malibu villa from appearing in a series of photographs of the

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attempts to remove it by legal action drew attention to the picture. (Now you know about it, too.) The journalist Mike Masnick dubbed this the “Streisand Effect,” and it plays out again and again in different settings, just as it did in Egypt’s censorship of the internet during Tahrir protests.5

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able to do in 1980. But a new era has brought new methods to the fore—methods that, ironically, include using a version of the Streisand effect as a way to suppress crucial information. To be effective, censorship in the digital era requires a reframing of the goals of censorship not as

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the message because access to techniques to circumvent censorship means that people have too many sources of messages to block them effectively, and because the Streisand effect means that targeting a single message may paradoxically draw even more attention to its contents, why not shoot the messenger? In the networked public sphere

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had quickly moved to circumvent the ban. There were more tweets than ever coming out of Turkey, and now, in a striking demonstration of the Streisand effect, there was even more international attention on Turkey because of the ban. Was the censorship backfiring? Only if you believe that this was a move

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of her home by battling to remove images of her mansion from the California Coastal Records Project. There is also increasingly a sort of “reverse Streisand effect”—a deliberate information glut can hide the truth by denying attention or credibility to events or facts inconvenient to those in power. As a result

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The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation

by Cathy O'Neil  · 15 Mar 2022  · 318pp  · 73,713 words

down on him. Karpf would go on to teach the encounter in his media classes, he wrote, as a case study of the so-called Streisand Effect:[*8] when authority figures attempt to repress online content but instead their actions draw massive attention to it. This happens with predictable frequency. Those on

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TEXT The singer Barbra Streisand gave birth to this effect: Stacy Conradt, “How Barbra Streisand Inspired the ‘Streisand Effect,’ ” Mental Floss, August 18, 2015, https://www.mentalfloss.com/​article/​67299/​how-barbra-streisand-inspired-streisand-effect. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT too many of the presumed powerless were speaking up: Jennifer Schuessler and

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

to the bank and the wife of a future king had, in practice, no effective redress. There is also what has become known as the Streisand effect. In 2003, the American singer-songwriter Barbra Streisand tried to suppress an online photograph documenting coastal erosion, which happened to show her seaside mansion in

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downloads were by her lawyers. When the case became known, more than 420,000 people visited the site in one month. The fame of the ‘Streisand effect’ has doubtless brought many more visitors since.62 In cases of defamation, rather than privacy violation, there is somewhat more chance that court proceedings will

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as president over corruption charges, she sued Google for defamation, arguing that her ‘right of personality’ was infringed by the suggestive algorithm.85 Predictably, the Streisand effect kicked in. One public opinion poll found that 81 percent of Germans had not heard the rumours before she started her campaign to stop them

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the first thing everyone knows about you’.88 You may not even have done it, but when you try to put the record straight the Streisand effect will result in far more people learning about the allegation. This has led to demands, especially in Europe, for a ‘right to be forgotten’, to

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Duchess’, Free Speech Debate, http://freespeechdebate.com/en/case/the-topless-duchess/ 62. Justin Parkinson, ‘The Perils of the Streisand Effect’, BBC News Magazine, 31 July 2014, http://perma.cc/3Y8A-M8KT, and ‘Streisand Effect’, Wikipedia, http://perma.cc/WAV5-FS9M 63. emails to the author, 3 October 2014 and 15 July 2015 64

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, 64, 71 Stewart, Jon, 204 STGD (Self, Truth, Government, Diversity), 73, 120, 183 Stone, Geoffrey, 322 Stone, I. F., 338 Storify, 199 Streisand, Barbra, 296 Streisand effect, 296, 303–4, 307–8 Sudan, 124 Sullivan, L. P., 299, 301 Summers, Larry, 154 ‘Sun, The,’ 192 Sunstein, Cass, 133, 197 Super Sad True

Free Speech And Why It Matters

by Andrew Doyle  · 24 Feb 2021  · 137pp  · 35,041 words

. In any case, I do not share the view that to restrict speech necessarily diminishes the spread of ideas. We have all heard of the ‘Streisand effect’, whereby attempts at censorship and suppression inadvertently draw more attention to the offending material. Whenever I hear demands for a book to be banned, my

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a brief overview of various international studies, see Michael Castleman, ‘Evidence Mounts: More Porn, Less Sexual Assault’, Psychology Today (14 January 2016). p.85the ‘Streisand effect’: The ‘Streisand effect’ is named after the singer Barbra Streisand, who in 2003 filed a lawsuit against a photographer who had published a photograph of her home in

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’ (Wilde) 58 Spanish Inquisition 67 Spencer, Brenda 78 Spencer, Herbert 43, 44 Spencer, Richard 72 Spinoza, Benedict de 90 state censorship 97 Streicher, Julius 66 ‘Streisand effect’ 85 students 41–7, 61–2, 69–70 Der Stürmer (newspaper) 66 Sunday Express 84 T taking offence 37–8 ‘tall trees’ broadcasts 77, 80

My Glorious Defeats: Hacktivist, Narcissist, Anonymous: A Memoir

by Barrett Brown  · 8 Jul 2024  · 332pp  · 110,397 words

forbid access to online information. Rather than preventing exposure, such an act tends to guarantee it. This phenomenon is now commonly referred to as the Streisand Effect. In 2003, Barbra Streisand got upset over pictures of her beachfront residence having been posted on some obscure corner of the internet as part of

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann  · 17 Jun 2019

create an incentive structure, you must heed Goodhart’s law and watch out for perverse incentives, lest you be overrun by cobras and rats! The Streisand effect applies to an even more specific situation: when you unintentionally draw more attention to something when you try to hide it. It’s named for

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and is on display on Wikipedia and many other places. As was said of Watergate, It’s not the crime, it’s the cover-up. Streisand Effect A related model to watch out for is the hydra effect, named after the Lernaean Hydra, a beast from Greek mythology that grows two heads

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is going to create a lot more trouble than it is worth. With all these traps—Goodhart’s law, along with the cobra, hydra, and Streisand effects—if you are going to think about changing a system or situation, you must account for and quickly react to the clever ways people may

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Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff  · 23 May 2011  · 344pp  · 96,690 words

to sites all over the Net, easily found using Google Image Search on “Barbra Streisand house.” Mike Masnick, a blogger for Techdirt, coined the term Streisand effect for events where attempts to remove content from the Internet cause it to spread broadly instead.11 So not only is Barbra Streisand’s house

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of food preparation in unsanitary conditions and a picture of a rusty boiler that allegedly contaminated Dunkin’s doughnuts. In a Korean version of the Streisand effect, Dunkin’ Donuts was able to persuade the site hosting the blog to remove the item, but it couldn’t stop the spread of the conversation

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