In this week’s Flightless Bird, David Farrier meets Mike Masnick, the journalist and entrepreneur who came up with the term “The Streisand Effect” 20 years ago. The term has its origins in Barbara Streisland suing someone for $50 million for daring to take a photo of her house - only to have the photo spread to millions of people. Since then the Streisand Effect has been used to describe the effect of the rich and powerful trying to shut down information. Farrier and Mike discuss the legacy of what Barbara did, and its effects on the internet today.
LINKS:
David Farrier’s Webworm newsletter: www.webworm.co - please support it!
TechDirt, Mike’s site: www.techdirt.com
Kenneth Adelman’s site: californiacoastline.org
Lawsuit details: https://www.californiacoastline.org/streisand/lawsuit.html
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