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Streisand Effect
When the spread of certain information accelerates due to the attempts to slow it down. The effect was named in 2003 when American entertainer Barbara Streisand tried to prevent people spreading a picture of her mansion in Malibu. The resultant media exposure and human curiosity for the forbidden led to the images circulating widely around the internet far faster than they would have had nobody intervened.
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