{"id":200167,"date":"2010-01-19T13:30:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-19T18:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"9400 at http:\/\/www.eff.org"},"modified":"2010-01-19T13:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-19T18:30:04","slug":"hello-streisand-effect-takedown-hall-of-shame-grows-by-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/200167","title":{"rendered":"Hello Streisand Effect: Takedown Hall of Shame Grows by Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Streisand_effect\">Streisand Effect<\/a> describes the phenomenon by which an attempt to suppress information results in faster, broader dissemination of that information.  Roughly explained, attempted censorship &#8212; particularly by a famous or well-known entity &#8212; can flag the information as more interesting.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Last October, we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\">launched<\/a> the Takedown Hall of Shame to highlight the most egregious attempts to silence speech online with bogus intellectual property complaints. Today, we\u2019re inducting four more would-be censors into the pantheon of speech bullies.  They are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peabody Energy, for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/energy-company-rages-against-activists-comedy\">issuing<\/a> outstandingly spurious trademark claims against a spoof site criticizing their &#8220;clean coal&#8221; group;<\/li>\n<li>Yahoo, for an impressive attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/yahoo-tries-hide-snoop-service-price-list\">return<\/a> a cat to the bag after a leak of its guide to snooping services for law enforcement was posted to a whistleblower site;<\/li>\n<li>Perez Hilton and the Miss Universe Organization for endeavoring to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/blogger-and-pageant-operators-try-block-advocacy-n\">stop<\/a> a non-profit from airing an ad commenting on a public same-sex marriage controversy initiated by their videos; and<\/li>\n<li>Universal Music Group, for attempting to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/takedowns\/music-publisher-tries-muzzle-podcast-criticizing-a\">muzzle<\/a> online criticism of the rapper Akon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The antidote for speech you disagree with is more speech &#8212; not overreaching legal threats.  Hopefully, we&#8217;ll see companies exercise more discretion and transparency when dealing with speech they dislike, instead of reaching for the nearest blunt legal instruments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Streisand Effect describes the phenomenon by which an attempt to suppress information results in faster, broader dissemination of that information. Roughly explained, attempted censorship &#8212; particularly by a famous or well-known entity &#8212; can flag the information as more interesting.) Last October, we launched the Takedown Hall of Shame to highlight the most egregious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}