You can’t stop the signal, Mal linked on Editorials

“For the first, time ever, they refused to run his column. So he ran it unedited on his own blog.

“I wasn’t advising them—they tend not to ask me for my opinion—but I would have advised against such a blackout. There’s a longstanding Internet term called ‘the Streisand effect,’ going back to when Barbara Streisand demanded that people stop sharing pictures of her beach house. Unsurprisingly, the result was a massive increase in the number of people posting pictures of her beach house. The Big Tech Blackout produced the same result…

“CNN’s Jake Tapper tweeted: ’Congrats to Twitter on its Streisand Effect award!!!’ Big Tech shot itself in the foot, and it didn’t stop the signal.”