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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Finland Blames Chinese Hacking Group APT31 for Parliament Cyber Attack

The Police of Finland (aka Poliisi) has formally accused a Chinese nation-state actor tracked as APT31 for orchestrating a cyber attack targeting the (...)

28 March

Latest Hacking News

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

GoPlus Labs, the leading Web3 security infrastructure provider, has unveiled a groundbreaking report that highlights… GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights (...)

28 March

HackRead

PyPI Suspends New Projects and Users Due to Malicious Packages

By Waqas Are you a Python developer? Here's what you need to know! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PyPI Suspends New Projects (...)

28 March

Tails - News

Tails 6.1

Changes and updates Update Tor Browser to 13.0.13. This includes the changes brought by 13.0.12. Update Thunderbird to 115.9.0. Fixed problems Fix (...)

27 March

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