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Named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, the Streisand Effect[1] is an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information which then backfires to have the unintended consequences of publicising it instead.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
In 2003, Barbra Streisand sued photographer Kenneth Adelman[2] for distributing aerial pictures of her mansion in Malibu. However, this wasn’t the usual case of celebrity snooping by unscrupulous paparazzi; the photographer was working on the California Coastal Records Project, a resource providing more than 12,000 pictures of the California coast for scientists and researchers to use to study coastal erosion. At the time of the lawsuit, the picture in question had apparently only been accessed a total of six times, two of which by Streisand’s lawyers. Of course, news outlets around the world reported on Streisand’s outrage, and before long, the photo[3] had received well over a million views. The photo was also picked up by the Associated Press and was reprinted countless times.
2: https://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/slapp-ruling-tentative.pdf
3: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/streisand-effect
r/Streisandeffect appears to have been dormant for a couple of years, but used to document instances of this phenomenon. The fandom subreddit r/BarbraStreisand also appears to be dormant. Abandoned subreddits can be adopted and given life again; full details are given in Creating A Subreddit[4].
4: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiakiy/
5: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhiiesf/
6: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhleky9/
7: https://www.reddit.com/r/NewToReddit/comments/qbb173/comment/hhu1bx6/
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