the "Streisand Effect"

[Jonathan Lighter]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Over one million raw Google hits.

It is invoked here in regard to a certain person's remarks about Paul
Revere:

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/06/paul-revere-sarah-palin-and-wikipedia/

(My favorite part: Conservapedia's incoherent rewrite of history to make it
match the blunder.)

JL
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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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