The Streisand effect is a phenomenon in which attempts to hide, delete, or censor a piece of information have unintended consequences from publishing wider information, usually facilitated by the Internet. This is an example of psychological reactance, where once people are aware that some information is stored from them, their motivation to access and spread it increases.
It was named after the American entertainer Barbra Streisand, who in 2003 tried to suppress photographs of his residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drawing public attention further to it. Similar attempts have been made, for example, in a stop and stop mail to suppress files, websites, and even numbers. Instead of being pressed, information received wide publications and media extensions such as spoof videos and songs, often mirrored widely on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.
Video Streisand effect
The origin of the term
Mike Masnick of Techdirt coined the term in 2005 in relation to a holiday resort that issued a takedown notice to urinal.net (a site dedicated to urinal photographs) on resort name usage.
How long will it take before the lawyers realize that the simple act of trying to suppress something they do not like online is likely to make it so something most people will never see (like urinal photos in some random beach resorts) now seen by more people? Let's call it the Streisand Effect.
The term is alluded to by Barbra Streisand, who has sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for violating privacy. The $ 50 million demands are trying to remove Streisand's home air photos from a collection of 12,000 California coastline images publicly available. Adelman photographed a beach property to document coastal erosion as part of the California Beach Records Project, which is intended to influence government policy makers. Before Streisand filed his lawsuit, "Figure 3850" had been downloaded from Adelman's site only six times; two of those downloads by Streisand's lawyer. As a result of this case, the public's knowledge of the image has increased greatly; more than 420,000 people visited this site during the following month. The lawsuit was dismissed and Streisand was ordered to pay Adelman's legal fees, which amounted to $ 155,567.
Maps Streisand effect
In politics
In November 2007, Tunisia blocked access to YouTube and Dailymotion after material posted about Tunisian political prisoners. Activists and supporters then began connecting the location of the then presidential palace President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Google Earth with a video on civil liberties in general. The Economist says this "turns a human rights story into a fashionable global campaign".
The French intelligence agency, the abolition of the DCRI on a French-language Wikipedia article on the military radio station Pierre-sur-Haute, produced an article that was temporarily the most watched page on French Wikipedia.
A defamation suit in 2013 by Theodore Katsanevas against the Greek Wikipedia editor resulted in project members bringing this story to the attention of journalists.
With business
In April 2007, a group of companies using Advanced Access Content System (AACS) encryption issued a stop-and-break letter demanding that the numerical keys of the system be removed from some high profile websites, including Digg. This leads to the proliferation of keys on other sites and chat rooms in various formats, with one commentator describing it as "the most famous number on the Internet". Within a month, the key has been reprinted in over 280,000 pages, printed on T-shirts and tattoos, and appeared on YouTube in a song that played over 45,000 times.
In September 2009, the Trafigura multinational oil company obtained a super order to prevent The Guardian newspaper reporting on Trafigura's internal investigations into the Ivory Coast waste scandal 2006, and also reported even the existence of the order. Using the parliamentary privileges, Labor Parliament Paul Farrelly refers to the super-orders in parliamentary inquiries, and on October 12, 2009, The Guardian reported that they have been gagged from reporting parliamentary inquiries, in violation of the 1689 Bill of Rights. Blogger Richard Wilson correctly identified the blocked question as referring to the Trafigura waste disposal scandal, after which The Spectator suggested the same thing. Not long after that, Trafigura started trending on Twitter, aided by Stephen Fry who retweeted the story to his followers. Twitter users immediately tracked all the details of the case, and on October 16, the super order has been revoked and the report was published.
In November 2012, Casey Movers, a Boston-based company, threatened to sue a woman in the Hingham District Court for defamation in response to a negative Yelp review. The woman's husband wrote a blog post about the situation, which was later retrieved by Techdirt . and Consumer At the end of the week, the company is reviewed by the Better Business Bureau, which subsequently revokes its accreditation.
In December 2013, ghostlyrich YouTube users upload video evidence that the Samsung Galaxy S4 battery is spontaneously on fire. Samsung has demanded proof before honoring the warranty. After Samsung learned about YouTube videos, he added additional provisions for his warranty, requested ghostlyrich remove his YouTube video, promised not to upload similar material, formally released the company of all liability, waived his right to file a lawsuit, and never made provisions public agreement. Samsung also demanded a witness to submit a settlement proposal. When ghostlyrich handed out Samsung's completion proposal online, the original video drew 1.2 million views a week.
In August 2014, it was reported that the Union Street Guest House in Hudson, New York, had a policy that "there will be a $ 500 penalty that will be deducted from your deposit for any negative reviews from USGH [Union Street Guest House] placed on what Internet site even by anyone in your party and/or attending your wedding or event. "The policy has been used in an effort to suppress the unfavorable Yelp November 2013 review. Thousands of negative reviews of the policy were posted to Yelp and other review sites.
By another organization
In January 2008, the Church of Scientology's effort to get an Internet website to remove Tom Cruise's video talked about Scientology resulting in the creation of Chanology Project.
On December 5, 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) added an English Wikipedia article about the 1976 Scorpions album Virgin Killer to the pornography blacklist of children, taking into account the cover art album "unauthorized images of a person children under the age of 18 ". The article quickly became one of the most popular pages on the site, and the publicity surrounding IWF's actions produced images scattered on other sites. The IWF was later reported on the BBC News website to say "the main purpose of IWF is to minimize the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, but, on this occasion our efforts have the opposite effect". This effect is also recorded by IWF in its statement about removal of URLs from the blacklist.
In June 2012, the Argyll and Bute Council prohibits nine-year-old elementary school students to update their blog, NeverSeconds, with photos of lunch presented at the school cafeteria. The blog, which is already popular, is starting to receive a large number of views due to the hoopla of international media that followed the ban. Within days, the council reversed its decision under tremendous public pressure and scrutiny. After reversing the ban, blogs became more popular than ever.
In April 2016, it was revealed that officials at the University of California, Davis, including Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi paid a consultant at least $ 175,000 to scrub the internet about stories about Katehi and government involvement in the incident destruction of UC Davis pepper 2011. News on payments brought the show back to news, adding to the negative press on waking revelations about Katehi's involvement on board outside. On April 27, 2016, University of California President Janet Napolitano removed Katehi from his post and placed him on paid administrative leave pending investigation into possible violations of the university's policies. Upon investigation, Katehi was granted a 1-year leave on August 9, 2016.
By individual
In May 2011, Premier League footballer Ryan Giggs sued Twitter after the user revealed that Giggs was the subject of an anonymous privacy command (informally referred to as a "super-order") that prevented publishing details about alleged infidelity with models and former contestants. Big Brother Imogen Thomas. A blogger for the Forbes website observed that the British media, forbidden to violate the terms of the order, had mocked footballers for not understanding the effect. The Guardian then post graph details - without mentioning the name of the player - the number of references to the player's name against time, shows a big jump after news that the player is seeking legal action.
A similar situation involving super-orders in England and Wales has taken place, involving Jeremy Clarkson. Since January 2016, unnamed celebrity pairs have used the orders given in PJS v News Group Newspapers to prevent media in England and Wales reporting events that have been featured in Scottish media and on the internet.
The Streisand effect has been observed in relation to the right to be forgotten, because a person who attempts to remove information from a search engine is at risk of litigation itself reported as valid news, at this time.
See also
- Banned in Boston
- Blowback (intelligence)
- Cobra Effect
- DSMA Notice
- Hydra effect
- List of eponymous laws
- Transportation Authority of Massachusetts Bay v. Anderson
- Strategic demands on public participation (SLAPP)
- Unintended consequences
References
External links
- "The danger of the Streisand effect". Parkinson, Justin. BBC News, July 31, 2014.
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