Are you familiar with the Streisand Effect?
Streisand effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew further attention to it in 2003.
Attempts to suppress information are often made through cease-and-desist letters, but instead of being suppressed, the information receives extensive publicity, as well as media extensions such as videos and spoof songs, which can be mirrored on the Internet or distributed on file-sharing networks.
The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to access and spread that information.
That happened in 2003.
Here's what happened yesterday, another example of an attempt to censor information:
YouTube to Delete Videos That Allege Fraud, Errors Changed the Election
(December 9, 2020)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/youtube-to-delete-videos-that-allege-fraud-errors-changed-the-election
Strangely, YouTube said it was already blocking videos that alleged widespread fraud or errors had changed the outcome of the election. Since September, the platform has terminated more than 8,000 channels and thousands of election-related videos that violated its policies. “Over 77 percent of those removed videos were taken down before they had 100 views,” it said.
The new policy arrives as outgoing President Donald Trump took to Twitter this morning to once again claim the election was rigged. Meanwhile, his supporters and right-wing pundits are already blasting YouTube for censorship, and encouraging users to switch to alternative platforms, such as Rumble and Parler.
This article is on the PC -fricking- Magazine website!
You can hardly denounce them as being a bunch of right wing nuts to be quickly "debunked" by Snopes, et al.
