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3. Epstein Files and the Streisand Effect. (repost)
Sat Dec 20, 2025, 11:18 AM
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220879634

Streisand Effect:

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

The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information.

The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Masnick after Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph by Kenneth Adelman showing her clifftop residence in Malibu, taken to document coastal erosion in California. Her efforts inadvertently drew widespread attention to the previously obscure photograph.




Like, WHO KNEW? until she sought to hide it?

And so it is with the "Epstein Files"

It's not what you show, but what you DON'T show that keeps the flame burning.

How many "last episode exposés" have you watched?
Even my "non TV, non media" self was intrigued by the last MASH episode, and "Who Killed J.R."? (Not Tolkien)
Who shot Mister Burns?

The whole damn world just started "filling in the blanks"

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And all your "P.R." efforts boil down to this:


and this

And your legacy becomes this:


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