The Streisand Effect
![The Streisand Effect illustration: the attention of two passers by is drawn by a glut of warning and security signs mounted on a high security perimeter wall.](https://images.prismic.io/sketchplanations/16f07758-4fe6-4371-afde-c78f77762a01_170228270351.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&w=3840&q=50)
A term coined by Mike Masnick, for what happens when you try and censor or suppress information: it draws attention to it.
It’s named Streisand after Barbara Streisand tried to have an aerial photo of her house removed from a set of California coastline photos intended to document coastal erosion. Views of the photo apparently went from 6 to 420,000.
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