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Streisand effect (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 day ago by dantheclamman@lemmy.world to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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"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."

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[–] dukemirage@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

The Streisand effect doesn’t seem to work properly if so much crap is happening in one place at once.