the "Streisand Effect"

[Joel S. Berson]

At 6/6/2011 10:42 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Well, if Barbra had more than 420,000 people visit the site over the
following month, I'm sympathetic.  There must have been a lot of
garbage left on the beachfront.

Joel


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