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CloudWatcher

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2. Yes! The Streisand effect

Reply to Pantagruel (Original post)

Sat Dec 18, 2021, 01:53 PM

Dec 2021

Great idea, it sounds like a variant of the 'Streisand effect" ...

The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American singer 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 greater attention to it in 2003.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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Helping CRT laws backfire [View all] Pantagruel Dec 2021 OP

The abbreviation CRT and its individual words are ripe for satire Tetrachloride Dec 2021 #1

Nascar CRT Tetrachloride Dec 2021 #8

Yes! The Streisand effect CloudWatcher Dec 2021 #2

The Streisand effect Pantagruel Dec 2021 #3

That's interesting. I'm sure that in the end Barbara enjoyed the increased focus on abqtommy Dec 2021 #4

Why do they crow "cancel culture" when they are the very ones wanting to cancel things MagickMuffin Dec 2021 #5

There aren't enough pixels in the universe to fill the Internet with smaples Republican hypocracy NCDem47 Dec 2021 #7

Projection: The biggest bit in their drill. dchill Dec 2021 #13

Internment of Americans during WW2 (of Japanese descent). Dread Scott. Brown v Board. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Dec 2021 #6

Thanks for help Pantagruel Dec 2021 #9

It will happen, and it will be quite entertaining sanatanadharma Dec 2021 #10

Do you have any evidence that there ever was a Civil War?" Pantagruel Dec 2021 #11

Because I saw a documentary on Sherman's March to Terminal B Sympthsical Dec 2021 #14

Well how about the Confederate soldier monument just down the street? /nt localroger Dec 2021 #12