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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Nespresso Domain Hijacked in Phishing Attack Targeting Microsoft Logins

By Waqas Coffee with Double Brew of Trouble! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Nespresso Domain Hijacked in Phishing Attack (...)

23 April

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Apache Cordova App Harness Targeted in Dependency Confusion Attack

Researchers have identified a dependency confusion vulnerability impacting an archived Apache project called Cordova App Harness. Dependency confusion (...)

23 April

Tails - News

Tails 6.2

New features We added 21 new languages to the Welcome Screen: Albanian, Armenian, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Estonian, Galician, Icelandic, Japanese, (...)

23 April

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WordPress PWA – how to protect your Progressive Web Apps

Progressive Web Apps, or PWAs, are innovative web applications that are developed using modern web… WordPress PWA – how to protect your Progressive Web (...)

23 April

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