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> 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 s
by 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 agoI'd be willing to say that there are more people that know of Barbara Streisand for being Barbara Streisand than because of the Streisand Effect. That effect is a pretty niche kind of internet term whereas Streisand was proper famous well before the internet existed. Sure, you may have TIL who she was, but let's not swipe that broad brush so freely.
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- snackman 6y agoHow long before the Streisand Effect outperforms Barbra herself?
- skinkestek 6y agoOne datapoint: I know about Streisand because of the Streisand Effect.
- vikramkr 6y agoMake that 2. I knew about the effect for years before I learned who she was.
- scastillo 6y agoIt outready outperformed the topic of this room for example
- toyg 6y agoNot much - she's a boomer icon, but as soon as that generation kicks the metaphorical bucket...
- 8bitsrule 6y agoStreisand was 22 in 1964 when her career kicked-off with Funny Girl. I think she (like Marvin Hamlisch) was more popular with the 'Silent Generation' (1928-45).