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Flightless Bird

Streisand Effect

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Society & Culture, Documentary, Comedy

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier meets Mike Masnick, the journalist and entrepreneur who came up with the term “The Streisand Effect” 20 years ago. The term has its origins in Barbara Streisland suing someone for $50 million for daring to take a photo of her house - only to have the photo spread to millions of people. Since then the Streisand Effect has been used to describe the effect of the rich and powerful trying to shut down information. Farrier and Mike discuss the legacy of what Barbara did, and its effects on the internet today. LINKS: David Farrier’s Webworm newsletter: www.webworm.co - please support it! TechDirt, Mike’s site: www.techdirt.com Kenneth Adelman’s site: californiacoastline.org Lawsuit details: https://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/lawsuit.html Contact Flightless Bird: flightlessbirdchat@gmail.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, David.

0:06.7

Hi, Rosabel. How are you?

0:08.1

I'm good. How are you going?

0:09.7

I'm good. If I understand correctly, it's the end of my week, but it's the beginning of your weekend because you're slightly in the future.

0:16.2

That's exactly right. But you know, you could say that it's also the beginning of your weekend.'s true just a little bit earlier in the process right depends how you live your life um have you got a great weekend ahead of you look what is a great weekend you know um it's always so hard to know it sounds like you've got a terrible weekend ahead

0:41.4

i just don't want to tell you um i'm going to my friend's exhibition today and i'm excited about

0:49.6

that and there's going to be a little sausage sizzle oh that sounds great explain great. Explain, I don't think Americans know what a sausage sizzle is.

0:56.7

What is a sausage sizzle?

0:58.3

Oh, you know, that's such a good question because I guess it's kind of like we thought we invented hot dogs,

1:05.4

but we didn't have the proper bread to do it.

1:08.1

Can you explain how a New Zeal would, like what a sausage sizzle is, like what the actual meal is?

1:13.7

Yeah.

1:14.1

So a sausage sizzle sausage is where you have someone like tending to the barbecue and there's a whole

1:21.5

bunch of sausages sizzling on the barbecue.

1:24.2

Usually some caramelized onions on there as well.

1:27.3

And then you get a piece of white bread and it's important that it's white bread because

1:32.3

it's got to be quite soft and malleable.

1:35.2

And then you place, well, this is the controversial part, isn't it?

1:38.4

You place the sausage, I think, diagonally, but some people think parallel to the bread.

1:45.0

Yeah, I go parallel.

1:52.6

Incorrect. And then you could put tomato sauce, mustard. I'd say the bread is really just a way to keep your hands clean while you're eating the sausage. It is New Zealand's version of the

1:56.7

American hot dog, except we don't have the hot dog bun. We just have a flat piece of white bread.

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