After the series of famous Washington Post stories by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate scandal in 1972, President Nixon not only fails to destroy the paper’s publisher, Katharine Graham, he destroys himself in the process and officially ends the traditional deference between the press corps and the presidency. Barbra Streisand sues to remove a picture of her house from the internet, and not only does she lose, but more people see the photo than otherwise would. It is a behavioral phenomenon that gets dubbed, fittingly, the Streisand Effect and has stood as a warning since:
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