The Streisand effect

The Streisand effect
The Streisand effect

Describes how efforts to suppress a piece of online.

The Streisand effect is the 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.


Collateral Freedom: how we thwart censorship

Reporters Without Borders is launching “Operation Collateral Freedom”. To combat online censorship, Reporters Without Borders is unblocking access to news websites in order to make them available in the 11 countries where they are currently banned. In an original initiative designed to circumvent website (...)

12 May 2015


"India’s Daughter" the film banned by India

India’s Daughter (Banned By Indian Government). Director: Leslee Udwin - Series Editor: Nick Fraser. Originally, the BBC had decided to show it on March 8, coinciding with International Women’s Day, but suddenly decided to advance it even as a storm was raging in India, saying it will enable viewers to see this (...)

8 March 2015


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Vulnerability Exposed Ibis Budget Guest Room Codes to Hackers

By Waqas Hackers Find Easy Access to Rooms at Ibis Budget Hotels! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vulnerability Exposed Ibis (...)

2 April

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What Kubernetes Users Need to Know About Windows Node Attacks

Researchers have identified a security issue in Kubernetes that allows users to generate pods which… What Kubernetes Users Need to Know About Windows (...)

2 April

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Malicious Code in XZ Utils for Linux Systems Enables Remote Code Execution

The malicious code inserted into the open-source library XZ Utils, a widely used package present in major Linux distributions, is also capable of (...)

2 April

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Arti 1.2.0 is released: onion services development

Arti is our ongoing project to create a next-generation Tor client in Rust. Now we're announcing the latest release, Arti 1.2.1. This release continues (...)

2 April

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