The Streisand Effect: When censorship backfires

&#62; Streisand Effect - the act of trying to suppress information but simply making it more widespread as a result.<p>This effect provides a natural equilibrium. When an organisation considers censorship, if the Streisand Effect comes into their mind, they may not really want to censor any more. So somehow this effect prevents some censorship without it being triggered.

The BBC has missed the real story, which is that as a result of all the publicity, Martha has raised over £43,000 and climbing[1] in less than 2 4hours for her nominated charity "Mary's Meals" which provides school meals for 600,000 children in 16 countries.<p>[1] <a href="http://www.justgiving.com/neverseconds" rel="nofollow">http://www.justgiving.com/neverseconds</a><p>[Edit: +£3000 in the last hour...]