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The Streisand effect isn't about a 1:1 comparison of the two cases.

It's just about calling attention to something few people would have noticed by being really heavy-handed in trying to take it down.



Is a BBC documentary about one of the world's most prominent politicians "something few people would have noticed"?


Yeah, I'd never heard of it until it was blocked on YouTube.

It's totally on the map now.


This makes as much sense as the infamous perspective "Nixon can't be president; nobody I know voted for him".


I really think that outside of the UK very few people would have heard of it if it wasn't for all this.




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