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> I wish we could have put it on the show, where no one would’ve watched it So true, the Streisand effect in full view. I think it got 95 million views on you

by jmclnx 8mo ago

> I wish we could have put it on the show, where no one would’ve watched it So true, the Streisand effect in full view. I think it got 95 million views on youtube. If just on the show with no comment from the US admin, probably would not break 5 million. This admin is doing more harm to itself trying to censor people than if they ignored Colbert.

fwipsy 8mo ago
Does the Streisand effect keep working if censorship continues? Or do people lose interest?
- stop50 8mo ago
  It increases. In Germany an ministry wanted to hide an document about glyphosat, this caused many people to request access to it that an judge ordered to make it public.
- bunderbunder 8mo ago
  I would guess It depends on how thoroughly the organization doing the censorship can exert control over information. For example, I’ve been pretty impressed by the extent to which the Chinese government is able to influence public discourse within its borders when they want to. But China is also home to over 90% of the world’s Chinese speakers, and it has its own domestic social media industry with very few users from outside the country, the Great Firewall, less of a culture of anti-authoritarianism, etc. I’m not sure how feasible it would be for the US to get to a comparable position. The US is nowhere close to being a supermajority of the world’s English speakers, and it might be hard for the government to impose an isolationist policy on the country’s tech industry without inciting a revolt by its tech oligarchs.
  - seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
    The GFW is real and many people don’t bother trying to jump it anymore. Mostly people in China don’t really care what the rest of the world is thinking, they got 1.4 billion in their own world, it’s big enough. The USA has only 342 million people in comparison, and we have a whole country to the north of us that barely talks with a different accent. Heck, half of our movie stars are Canadian or Australian (it feels like it anyways).
alamortsubite 8mo ago
Apparently Talarico's campaign has raised $2.5 million in just 24 hours since the interview.
gabrielsroka 8mo ago
It has 6 million views as of noon Pacific time https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

by jmclnx 8mo ago

fwipsy 8mo ago

Does the Streisand effect keep working if censorship continues? Or do people lose interest?

stop50 8mo ago
It increases. In Germany an ministry wanted to hide an document about glyphosat, this caused many people to request access to it that an judge ordered to make it public.
bunderbunder 8mo ago
I would guess It depends on how thoroughly the organization doing the censorship can exert control over information. For example, I’ve been pretty impressed by the extent to which the Chinese government is able to influence public discourse within its borders when they want to. But China is also home to over 90% of the world’s Chinese speakers, and it has its own domestic social media industry with very few users from outside the country, the Great Firewall, less of a culture of anti-authoritarianism, etc. I’m not sure how feasible it would be for the US to get to a comparable position. The US is nowhere close to being a supermajority of the world’s English speakers, and it might be hard for the government to impose an isolationist policy on the country’s tech industry without inciting a revolt by its tech oligarchs.
- seanmcdirmid 8mo ago
  The GFW is real and many people don’t bother trying to jump it anymore. Mostly people in China don’t really care what the rest of the world is thinking, they got 1.4 billion in their own world, it’s big enough. The USA has only 342 million people in comparison, and we have a whole country to the north of us that barely talks with a different accent. Heck, half of our movie stars are Canadian or Australian (it feels like it anyways).

alamortsubite 8mo ago

Apparently Talarico's campaign has raised $2.5 million in just 24 hours since the interview.

gabrielsroka 8mo ago

It has 6 million views as of noon Pacific time https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A https://youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A