The Streisand Effect

The Streisand effect describes what happens when you try to censor or suppress information: it draws attention to it.

It’s named Streisand after Barbara Streisand tried to have an aerial photo of her house removed from a set of California coastline photos intended to document coastal erosion. Views of the photo apparently went from 6 to 420,000.

The Streisand Effect as a term was coined by Mike Masnick