{"id":207229,"date":"2010-01-20T23:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/1706147841.shtml"},"modified":"2010-01-20T23:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T04:40:26","slug":"four-more-inducted-into-the-streisand-effect-hall-of-shame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/207229","title":{"rendered":"Four More Inducted Into The Streisand Effect Hall Of Shame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that my legacy is going to be the fact that I <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20050105\/0132239.shtml\">coined<\/a> the term &#8220;The Streisand Effect&#8221; five years ago, and it&#8217;s now become <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20080229\/143915387.shtml\">part of the culture<\/a>.  It&#8217;s great to see the concept take off, though, and it&#8217;s pretty exciting to see the EFF update the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20091027\/1129296695.shtml\">takedown hall of shame<\/a> it announced last year, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2010\/01\/hello-streisand-effect-takedown-hall-shame-grows-f\" >four new entries<\/a>, exclaiming: &#8220;Hello Streisand Effect!&#8221;  For the record, here are the EFF&#8217;s four latest inductees:<\/p>\n<ul><i><\/p>\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<p><\/i><\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/1706147841.shtml\">Permalink<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20100120\/1706147841.shtml#comments\">Comments<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/article.php?sid=20100120\/1706147841&#038;op=sharethis\">Email This Story<\/a><br \/>\n <br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=88ba3b60dc610c5c07c507ff7ce00b9e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=88ba3b60dc610c5c07c507ff7ce00b9e&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2225\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=bOKA4QZ2eX4:zeU8k61NaXY:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?i=bOKA4QZ2eX4:zeU8k61NaXY:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.techdirt.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?a=bOKA4QZ2eX4:zeU8k61NaXY:c-S6u7MTCTE\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/techdirt\/feed?d=c-S6u7MTCTE\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/techdirt\/feed\/~4\/bOKA4QZ2eX4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that my legacy is going to be the fact that I coined the term &#8220;The Streisand Effect&#8221; five years ago, and it&#8217;s now become part of the culture. It&#8217;s great to see the concept take off, though, and it&#8217;s pretty exciting to see the EFF update the takedown hall of shame it announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207229","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}