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This is known as the Streisand effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
by LeonM 6y ago
This is known as the Streisand effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
- dheera 6y agoI have never heard of Barbra Streisand or the Streisand effect. I love how the "Streisand effect" is an example of itself.
- amelius 6y agoEh, I just looked it up and the Streisand effect was about an aerial photograph of Streisand's mansion which she wanted to hide, not about promotion of Streisand's work. So unless you downloaded that photo, I guess this is an anti-example (as in this case the effect worked in her favor, not against her).
- Kaze404 6y agoThe point is trying to hide something only makes it more known. In her case it was a picture, in this case it's software.
- kzrdude 6y agoFollowing that wikipedia link leads to downloading and viewing the picture.
- Talanes 6y agoShe was trying to take down an image that was on a niche ecological website with six downloads. It is now the example image of a Wikipedia article on a commonly used term. That's a big net loss.
- TheDong 6y ago> I love how the "Streisand effect" is an example of itself. For the Streisand effect to be an example of itself, there would have to be an attempt to ban or suppress the usage or knowledge of the idea of the effect. I don't think that's happened, so I don't see how it's self-referential.
- asah 6y agoFTFY with the following statement of alternative fact: the Streisand Effect is fake news.
- tomrod 6y agoWe should review the wiki article discussion as a data source for this.
- 627467 6y agoCouldn't you consider a (british) super-injunction to be an attempt at suppression?
- rusk 6y agoIf Streisand had that kind of power at that time there could well have been no Streisand effect - though perhaps that is unconstitutional in the USA ....
- antihero 6y agoI wonder if we could get Barbara's lawyers to C&D any articles mentioning the Streisand effect.
- varispeed 6y agoThere is a suppression of source code.
- dheera 6y agoFrom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect : "It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew further attention to it in 2003." My point is that more people know about Barbra Streisand and the Streisand Effect because of Streisand's attempts to suppress information.
- dylan604 6y ago
- CRConrad 6y ago> I have never heard of Barbra Streisand... Shit, now I feel old.
- encom 6y agoThen you're one of todays lucky 10000. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- joshspankit 6y agoI was always surprised it was never referred to by an event that wildly predates the Streisand image: Alyssa Milano suing websites (Though apparently it was her mother filing the suits first) to try to have her nude images removed from the internet. That was 1998. Streisand was 2003. https://money.cnn.com/1998/04/30/technology/internet_pkg/ https://money.cnn.com/1998/04/30/technology/internet_pkg/
- wodenokoto 6y ago1998 sounded much more reasonable to me than 2003. But that is because, I for some reason thought that the streissand effect came to be following the Mecha Streissand episode of South Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha-Streisand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecha-Streisand
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- vmception 6y agoNot directly applicable to RIAA here as they started this by issuing the takedown requests, but I often get around the Streisand effect by ignoring things and then issuing takedown notices later. Like for example, if something came out that some persons might use to try an embarrass me, I let it stay out for a while and don't really address it. Two to three people tweet it and it doesn't go further, hundreds of people weren't compelled to save it "for the lulz". Then a few weeks or months later I get the service to take it down, the person that posted barely notices or understands that their voice is not strong enough and the bar to change that is much higher and they've moved on to some other issue de jour. Yes, there is a possibility that it circulates pretty far initially, or that the thing being shared gets ingrained into the consciousness as truth, but in those circumstances providing a reaction involving the law or lawyers would still amplify it.
- Simon_says 6y agoDoes this happen to you a lot?
- vmception 6y agohandful of times people try ad hominem attacks but nobody cares, or think that I’m vulnerable because I’ve had public facing roles and try to act on that but it’s just them wasting energy its basically something like "what you can't have an opinion online! I can damage you therefore I'll try to damage you!" and then realize they have no reach and the world doesn't work the way they think it does