Streisand effect
As Streisand effect is a phenomenon is called, after which the attempt to suppress unwanted information or to have it removed, public attention moves to and thereby have the opposite effect, namely that the information is known to an even larger group of people.
Owes its name to the phenomenon Barbra Streisand, in 2003 unsuccessfully sued photographer Kenneth Adelman and the website Pictopia.com to 50 million U.S. dollars because an aerial photograph of her house between 12,000 other photos could be found of the coast of California on said website. But that they presented only the connection between itself and the buildings depicted, whereupon spread the photo after the snowball on the internet. Adelman argued that he had photographed the beach to document coastal erosion for the California Coastal Records Project.
Motivation
Reason for the removal of information may be an assumed violation of personal rights. For example, while access to a photo, file, or also to an entire website or its provision is prohibited by interim relief. Instead, the information is suppressed, it often spreads by " reflections " on the Internet or dissemination in file-sharing networks. The effect is related to the observation of John Gilmore that " the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. " ( German: "The Internet interprets censorship as a malfunction and uses an alternate route " ), and comparable to a regenerative organism was. However, the effect does not arise automatically but is a specific and conscious action of many individuals, out of curiosity or conviction about for actively combating censorship.
Counter negative goodwill messages on the Internet service providers now offer early pass on information about adverse statements of companies, so as to prevent the uncontrolled spread.