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Absolute Streisand-Effect here.

• thaumasiotes 4y ago
  Barbra Streisand faces an unclear tradeoff between publicizing the pictures of her home that already exist and encouraging the future taking of unwanted photographs of her home. Modi has much, much, much more reason to fear that tolerating one scandal-raising documentary will lead to further scandal-raising documentaries, and much less reason to believe that ignoring the problem he already has will make it go away. I don't think the Streisand Effect is a good analogy to try to draw here.
  • wkat4242 4y ago
    The Streisand effect isn't about a 1:1 comparison of the two cases. It's just about calling attention to something few people would have noticed by being really heavy-handed in trying to take it down.
    • thaumasiotes 4y ago
      Is a BBC documentary about one of the world's most prominent politicians "something few people would have noticed"?
      • wkat4242 4y ago
        Yeah, I'd never heard of it until it was blocked on YouTube. It's totally on the map now.
        • thaumasiotes 4y ago
          This makes as much sense as the infamous perspective "Nixon can't be president; nobody I know voted for him".
          • wkat4242 4y ago
            I really think that outside of the UK very few people would have heard of it if it wasn't for all this.
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