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Hopefully not too much of a derail, but: the "Streisand effect" had nothing to do with nude photos [0]: It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand
by qohen 7y ago
Hopefully not too much of a derail, but: the "Streisand effect" had nothing to do with nude photos [0]:
It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose 2003 attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California inadvertently drew further public attention to it.
But, today I learned, the name seems to have been coined to describe something else a couple of years later [1]:
Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term in 2005 in relation to a holiday resort issuing a takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to photographs of urinals) over use of the resort's name.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect#Origin_of_the_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect#Origin_of_the...
- lowdose 7y agoYou are completely right, but this sounds to me like this puts Streisand in an even worse position.