Streisand effect
A PHENOMENON WHEREBY AN ATTEMPT TO HIDE, REMOVE, OR CENSOR A PIECE OF INFORMATION HAS THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE OF PUBLICIZING THE INFORMATION MORE WIDELY, USUALLY FACILITATED BY THE INTERNET
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The Streisand effect is a phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of increasing awareness of that information, often via the Internet. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project’s photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.