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A comment on Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF. Parent comment

Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by Icedcool on Friday August 18, 2017 @09:54AM (#15046156)
I present the Streisand effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

That prolonged suppression only works specific environments where control is total.

The USA is not that, and censorship attempts often provide further platform for the information.

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Re:Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF by randomstudent on Friday August 18, 2017 @10:29AM (#15046476)
Hm... Interesting :) Is there any research about this? It does seem likely, but I can certainly imagine a world in which most attempts at suppression work and we celebrate the cases where it doesn't because it's ironic. Is there any evidence that the effect is not just a case of survivorship bias?
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