Streisand effect

English 2012 November 13 thumb|California Coastal Records Project photo of coastline including Streisand Estate (2002). Etymology en Mike Masnick 2005 1, after a 2003 incident in which singer Barbra Streisand attempted to have a picture of her house removed from a public collection of 12,000 images documenting coastal erosion in California.http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18458567 BBC News The Streisand Effect: When censorship backfires June 15, 2012 2012-10-29 w:BBC Mario Cacciottolo https://web.archive.org/web/20260703141408/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18458567 3 July 2026http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050105/0132239.shtml October 29, 2012 2005-01-05 Since When Is It Illegal To Just Mention A Trademark Online? w:Mike Masnick techdirt: Legal Issues https://web.archive.org/web/20220204070348/https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20050105/0132239.shtml 4 February 2022http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/miloyiannopoulos/8248311/What_is_The_Streisand_Effect/ The Daily Telegraph What is 'The Streisand Effect'? Milo Yiannopoulos 2009-01-31 2012-10-29 Telegraph Media Group Limited https://web.archive.org/web/20110403093400/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/technology/miloyiannopoulos/8248311/What_is_The_Streisand_Effect/ 3 April 2011Hovsep Kocharyan “The Right to be Remembered?”: The Contemporary Challenges of the “Streisand Effect” in the European Judicial Reality International and Comparative Law Review 105–120 2022-12-01 22 2 2464-6601 10.2478/iclr-2022-0017 Ondrej Hamuľák Lusine Vardanyan Pronunciation en /ˈstɹaɪ.sænd əˌfɛkt/ US en en-au-Streisand effect.ogg AU Noun A phenomenon in which attempting to suppress an item of information attracts even more unwanted attention, thus furthering its dissemination. en 2009 John W. Dozier; Sue Scheff Google Bomb: The Untold Story of the $11.3M Verdict That Changed the Way We Use the Internet 0757314155 HCI 40 No matter how effective your rebuttal may seem to be to you, a response will "bump" the problem into greater prominence and relevance in the search engine results, which then turns your headache into a migraine. This is doubly dangerous since "bumping" the negative information potentially introduces the "Streisand Effect" into the equation, which is something to avoid if at all possible. It is commonly defined as a phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information on the web backfires, causing greater publicity. en 2009 Kyle Lacy Twitter Marketing For Dummies For Dummies 0470561726 215 Say you discover that people aren't just talking about you, they're bashing you. Should you step in and try to stop them? Again, the answer is absolutely no! Leave them alone – you'll only make the problems worse and create a Streisand Effect if you try to hush them up. en Jim Emerson Teaching the controversy Scanners w:Chicago Sun-Times 2009-09-11 http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/09/when_did_you_stop_raping_and_k.html 2009-10-16 But that hasn't stopped Beck's lawyers from trying to shut down the site -- resulting in more blowback and another manifestation of the dreaded Streisand Effect! https://web.archive.org/web/20090915180107/http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/09/when_did_you_stop_raping_and_k.html 2009-09-15 en K Vaidya Nathan 2010-12-17 w:The Indian Express http://www.indianexpress.com/news/beware-the-streisand-effect/725720/ 2012-10-29 Beware the Streisand effect The Indian Express Limited Though, the action of the US government was intended to suppress the leaks, the ‘Streisand effect’ made sure that the outcome was exactly the opposite. People all over the world, who hadn’t even heard of the Website, were typing WikiLeaks.org on their keyboards only to find a site-unavailable message, which increased their curiosity. People sympathetic to WikiLeaks, in the meantime, had voluntarily mirrored the website in order to keep it online. Quotations en Derived terms en Streisand Translations phenomenon Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 史翠珊效應 Shǐcuìshān xiàoyìng Finnish: fi Streisand-ilmiö French: fr effet Streisand m German: de Streisand-Effekt m Italian: it effetto Streisand m Japanese: ja ストライサンド効果 Sutoraisando kōka Polish: pl Efekt Streisand Portuguese: pt efeito Streisand m Russian: ru эффе́кт Стре́йзанд m effékt Strɛ́jzand Turkish: tr Streisand etkisi See also en backfire en censorship en epic fail en freedom of speech References Further reading en Streisand v. Adelman, assessment by United States House Committee on the Judiciary en en Category:Streisand effect Category:Streisand effect en eponyms en Freedom of speech Internet