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So today I want to talk about the Streisand Effect.

We're going to go into some famous examples of that that are truly comical.

What is this phenomenon?

You know about it.

Yes, but explain it for our listeners. The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information

results in unintended consequences, usually increasing public awareness about the information that

they're trying to hide. Although this has existed for a while, for instance, banning a book or an album of music usually brings it more demand to have it.

But let's get into when and why it got this particular name, the Streisand effect.

The term was coined in 2005 by Mike Maznick of TechDirt after Barbara Streisand

attempted to suppress the publication of a photograph by Kenneth Eidlman, which showed her

clifftop residence in Malibu. This photograph was taken to document coastal erosion in California.

So let's go back to 2003. Barbara sues this photographer

and Pictopia.com for $50 million for violation of privacy. The lawsuit sought to remove

image 3850, which was labeled as Drysanda State Malibu. This is an aerial photograph of her mansion.

It's very visible.

And this was publicly available at the California Coastal Records Project with over 12,000 more California

Closeline photographs.

So it wasn't in People magazine.

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