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Define The Streisand Effect Meaning

Streisand Effect
when someone decides to ban or censor something, and that attempt to make something go away, makes it even bigger than ever before, or ever planned.

dj danger mouse's gray album in which he remixed the vocals from jay-z's the black album and the beatles white album. when emi sent a cease and desist letter to danger mouse the internet community created an intense distribution campaign
By Celinka
The Streisand Effect
The Streisand effect is a primarily online phenomenon in which an attempt to censor or remove a piece of information has the opposite effect and instead drags attention

Urban Dictionary sucks - said on named site creates The Streisand Effect with lots of thumbs down dragging up the result
By Carri
The Streisand Effect
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.

"The Streisand Effect is named after American entertainer Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress photographs of her residence in Malibu, California, inadvertently drew further attention to it in 2003."
By Dionne